Breaking a string of text and inserting something?

[Mr Chris]

Hi,

 

I'm a bit stuck and would like some help please if someone would be so kind.

 

I have a variable which contains a long string of text.  Now I have a piece of php code which finds the middle of that code and I can output some text there or an image (like below)

 

<? 

//Example of what comes out of database and is assigned for the variable $text
$text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi quam lorem, posuere et scelerisque eu, dictum eget odio.";

$len = (strlen($text) >> 1) - 2;

// insert at sentence boundary
echo
preg_replace(
"/(?<=.{{$len}}[.!?])\s/",
"<br />[ QUOTE WOULD GO HERE HALF WAY IN ]<br />",
$text,
1); 

?>

 

Now this works fine, what i'd really like to do is half way in output a quote box i've made, but ONLY if the number of characters in the string exceeds a set amount in this case 200, otherwise it won't appear:

 

if ($quote) && strlen($text) > 200
{
echo '
      <div style="float:right; display:inline;">
        <div class="top_quote_box"></div>
        <div class="middle_quote_box">'. $quote .'</div>
        <div class="end_quote_box"></div>
      </div>
     '; 
}

 

But I can't seem to plug the two in together, i've tried several ways but it throws up syntax errors left right and centre.  Could anyone help me with this, or maybe advise a better way of doing this?

 

Also while i'm here, would there also be a way to bolden the first paragraph only in the $text at the same time?