first few characters only

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

hi, does anyone know how to use PHP to take the first few words of a text and limit them? i have seen this in many news sites where the news story headline reads like "woman found in obama's bedroom today at....... read more. ('read more' is a link)

what i am looking for is something that says i will take the first 100 characters of the entry and then print "...read more" as a link to the full story.

thanks

Your Answer:

Login to answer

Other forums

Opening Multiple Files/Links in Order.
I want to open links in order/one-by-one and check each for a specific string.

Example:
I

ASP.NET Validation Event Cycle
Hi,
I have asp button as follow:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in
hello,
i receive the error :Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:xamppxampphtdocsh

Concatenate two strings ???
I have string one $string1 and another $string2.

How to concatenate (add) both of them $str

Unable to retreve the values from Mysql Query
Hi,

Here is the php code that I have, Query is running properly in phpmyadmin and is resu

Nested (echoed) php running wrong script
Got a problem with a php website I'm creating.

In a nutshell, the first page is entirely html

SMTP server...
I recently found a tutorial online on SMTP authentification for sending emails from webpages, here i

Deleting a record php
Attempting to setup delete a record page. The below code I put together doesn't seem to work.

remove a ; from emails in textarea
Code: <?php

session_start();

$database_host = "localhost&qu

Not connecting to DB using ruby, error:env.c:257:in oci8lib.so: ORA-12154:
Hi All,

I am trying to connect to the database server from the client server using ruby and f