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Displaying first X words from database?


echoninja

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I have been trying to find a tutorial on how to display the first X words from a database entry, like google does with search "..."'s
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How can this be acheived?
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Feel free to copy/paste.

function trimString($str, $newlength) {
if (strlen($str) > $newlength) {
$newlengthwithdots = $newlength - 3;
$newstring = substr($str, 0, $newlengthwithdots);
$newstring .= "...";
} else {
$newstring = $str;
}
return $newstring;
}

*edit*
Sorry if the indent is confusing, I'm not sure how to indent on these forums.

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