want to add a break after a certain amount of characters

[Noskiw]

i was wondering how to add a break in a blog post after a certain amount of characters... any idea on how to do this???

 

this is the code i'm workig with

 

<?php

$connect = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("blog", $connect) or die(mysql_error());

echo "<h1>Blog</h1>";

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM blog");

if (mysql_num_rows($query) == 0) {
    echo "<hr />There are no posts yet, make the first in the admin section!";
} else {
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
    	echo "<hr />";
    	$title2 = $row['title'];
    	$name = $row['name'];
    	$email = $row['email'];
        $post = $row['post'];
        $date = $row['date'];
        $time = $row['time'];        
        
        echo "<h3>Title: " . $title2 . "</h3><table width='100%'><tr><td><b>Posted by: " . $name . "(" . $email . ") at " . $time . " on " . $date . "</b></td></tr><tr><td>" . nl2br(strip_tags($post)) . "</td></tr></table>\n";
    }
}

echo "<hr />";

$page = $_GET['p'];
if ($page) {
    	$path = "/inc/" . $page . ".php";
    	if (file_exists($path)) {
        	include ($path);
    	}
}

echo "Are you an admin? <a href='index.php?p=blog&p=credentials'>Place a post</a>";

?>

[cags]

If you want to split on an amount of characters regardless of whether that leaves you in the middle of a word, you could just use substr on the variable to grab the first x amount of characters.

[Andy-H]

i was wondering how to add a break in a blog post after a certain amount of characters... any idea on how to do this???

 

this is the code i'm workig with

 

<?php

$connect = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("blog", $connect) or die(mysql_error());

echo "<h1>Blog</h1>";

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM blog");

if (mysql_num_rows($query) == 0) {
    echo "<hr />There are no posts yet, make the first in the admin section!";
} else {
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
       echo "<hr />";
       $title2 = $row['title'];
       $name = $row['name'];
       $email = $row['email'];
        $post = $row['post'];
        $words = explode(" ", $post);
        $limit = 30;
        $date = $row['date'];
        $time = $row['time'];        
        
        $show = ((count($words) - 1) > $limit) ? implode(" ", array_chunk($words, $limit)) . '...' : $post;


        echo "<h3>Title: " . $title2 . "</h3><table width='100%'><tr><td><b>Posted by: " . $name . "(" . $email . ") at " . $time . " on " . $date . "</b></td></tr><tr><td>" . nl2br(strip_tags($show)) . "</td></tr></table>\n";
    }
}

echo "<hr />";

$page = $_GET['p'];
   if ($page) {
       $path = "/inc/" . $page . ".php";
       if (file_exists($path)) {
           include ($path);
       }
   }

echo "Are you an admin? <a href='index.php?p=blog&p=credentials'>Place a post</a>";

?>

 

I think that should work, you should also add an option to view the full post, maybe using a get variable, and if it is set you could use this after.

//Edit

        $show = ((count($words) - 1) > $limit) ? implode(" ", array_chunk($words, $limit)) . '...<a href="?showall=true">Reveal Post</a>' : $post;
        /// if they want to show the full post
        if ( isset( $_GET['showall']) ) $show = $post;

[Noskiw]

i was wondering how to add a break in a blog post after a certain amount of characters... any idea on how to do this???

 

this is the code i'm workig with

 

<?php

$connect = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("blog", $connect) or die(mysql_error());

echo "<h1>Blog</h1>";

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM blog");

if (mysql_num_rows($query) == 0) {
    echo "<hr />There are no posts yet, make the first in the admin section!";
} else {
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
       echo "<hr />";
       $title2 = $row['title'];
       $name = $row['name'];
       $email = $row['email'];
        $post = $row['post'];
        $words = explode(" ", $post);
        $limit = 30;
        $date = $row['date'];
        $time = $row['time'];        
        
        $show = ((count($words) - 1) > $limit) ? implode(" ", array_chunk($words, $limit)) . '...' : $post;


        echo "<h3>Title: " . $title2 . "</h3><table width='100%'><tr><td><b>Posted by: " . $name . "(" . $email . ") at " . $time . " on " . $date . "</b></td></tr><tr><td>" . nl2br(strip_tags($show)) . "</td></tr></table>\n";
    }
}

echo "<hr />";

$page = $_GET['p'];
   if ($page) {
       $path = "/inc/" . $page . ".php";
       if (file_exists($path)) {
           include ($path);
       }
   }

echo "Are you an admin? <a href='index.php?p=blog&p=credentials'>Place a post</a>";

?>

 

I think that should work, you should also add an option to view the full post, maybe using a get variable, and if it is set you could use this after.

//Edit

        $show = ((count($words) - 1) > $limit) ? implode(" ", array_chunk($words, $limit)) . '...<a href="?showall=true">Reveal Post</a>' : $post;
        /// if they want to show the full post
        if ( isset( $_GET['showall']) ) $show = $post;

 

but where would i place that in the code?