How To Give Limitation Of Words Inside The Div

[ksumanth]

I have a some large text that is fetched from database. Now i dont want to display all the text from frontpage. I need only 4 lines from the entire text. If four lines extend it should display .... so that i give read more button it will goes to next page.

Give me any sugessions

[Andy123]

If you will be sending the visitors to a different page when clicking a read more button, then I would strongly suggest limiting your text on the server side (perhaps PHP) instead of client side (Javascript). By doing this, you avoid sending unnecessary data to the visitors' browsers and thereby improve page load time.

[codefossa]

Is your font monospaced? If not, you can only estimate what would be close. As Andy said, this should be done in PHP because it's pointless to send a bunch of data you don't need.

 

Maybe try something like this.

 

<?php

function word_limit($string, $limit)
{
$arr = preg_split('/\s+/', $string);
return implode(' ', array_splice($arr, 0, $limit));
}

$str = "One two three four five.  Six seven eight nine ten, eleven twelve.  Thirteen!!!  Fourteen (:";

// Output: One two three four five.  Six seven eight nine ten, eleven twelve.
echo word_limit($str, 12);

?>