select 500 char first

[fer0an]

hello

I want select first 500 char of my text and insert it as intro text and all of them for full.

anyone can help me?

 

thank you

[ngreenwood6]

If this is only text then you could do something like:

 

$text = 'Your text here';
$truncated_text = substr($text,0,500);

 

However if you have tags in there its not as simple as that because if you cut it off in the middle of a tag it may break your layout. A simple workaround for this is to remove the tags before doing so like this:

 

$text = 'Your text here';
$text = strip_tags($text);
$truncated_text = substr($text,0,500);

 

If you need to keep the formatting then a more complex solution will need to be put in place and can be quite confusing. Hopefully this helps.