Comments on: Creating a string exerpt elegantly

By: Damianhill

Damianhill — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:55:34 +0000

Thanks for the work you have shared. It will save me hours (days).

Bookmarked and blogged.

By: Adpaster

Adpaster — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:47:50 +0000

My question is similiar to ngb55@hotmail.com. I want to find the total number of .(periods) in a text. If the text have a certain number of .(periods), divide the number by 3 and end the sentence at the period. If not print the text. In short, I am trying to print 1/3 of the text if the . (periods) total a certain number. And I will add a hyperlink using the words (more details).

By: Thecelestialcelebi

Thecelestialcelebi — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:00:05 +0000

” nice, now imagine your string contained special characters of the kind “њ”.”

You don’t do that. You do the chopping first, then htmlentities(), because ‘ and њ in length is equal (don’t know if њ is ‘, but it’s just an example).

By: Simo

Simo — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:37:01 +0000

nice, now imagine your string contained special characters of the kind “њ”.
It would be great to have a function that considers these as one character each and therefore avoid returning strings like : “This is a substring &1 …”

I’m interested if you could find a solution. Please email me!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:37:01 +0000

Hi: I came across your code to shorten strings and URLs. I need to figure out how to shorten a string, stopping it not at a certain number of characters, but rather at the first instance of a period and space (end of sentence) Let me explain: The string consists of many sentences. I want only the first sentence to appear. I want the funtion to read the string and stop at the first occurence of “. ” which would indicate the end of a first sentence. I do not want the first sentence to end in the middle of a word, so indicating the number of characters will not work. Can you help? Many thanks inadvance. Norman Brown

[Editor's Note: Search for the first occurence of a full stop using strpos(). Then substr() to get that portion of the string.]

By: Cjpa

Cjpa — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:37:01 +0000

ngb55@hotmail.com

you can do it like this:
$tmparr = explode(“. “, $string,1);
echo $temparr[0];