substr()

[dreamwest]

Is it possible to get substr to end on a word boundry instead of halfway through a word?

 

 

$txt = "The cat goes splat on my bumper mat";
echo substr($txt, 0, 120); //this can be around 12 chars so doesnt need to be exactly 12 chars

 

 

[Muddy_Funster]

not sure if it's what you are looking for, bur strrpos() -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strrpos.php -- should be able to help.

[menator]

Here is a function I found with a search

function WordLimiter($text,$limit=20){
    $explode = explode(' ',$text);
    $string  = '';

    $dots = '...';
    if(count($explode) <= $limit){
        $dots = '';
    }
    for($i=0;$i<$limit;$i++){
        $string .= $explode[$i]." ";
    }
    if ($dots) {
        $string = substr($string, 0, strlen($string));
    }

    return $string.$dots;
}


// Usage
$str = 'This is a long string. Could be longer too.';

echo WordLimiter($str,4);