[Regicide]

I'm working on my website. On it, I've got a news section. But, I would like the viewer to have a preview of the news on the front page. For example, could PHP count how many words are in each news section and only show 50 words from each and then have a link to where it is located in the news section? And, if I can do that, would it be easier to have all the news in one HTML file, or 1 HTML for each?

[funkomatic]

<?php echo substr($news,0,49); ?>

[deuce868]

Originally Posted by funkomatic

<?php echo substr($news,0,49); ?>

That will only get you the first 50 characters. Here is a function I use to get the first 120 words of a text field.

PHP Code:

function truncate($string, $length = 120, $break_words = false) { 
      //function to cut the bios on the list so that it only shows the first 120 words
      
       if ($length == 0) 
           return ''; 
   
       if (strlen($string) > $length) { 
           $length -= strlen($etc); 
           $fragment = substr($string, 0, $length+1); 
           if ($break_words) 
               $fragment = substr($fragment, 0, -1); 
           else 
               $fragment = preg_replace('/\s+(\S+)?$/', '', $fragment); 
           return $fragment.$etc; 
       } else 
           return $string; 
   } 


[Regicide]

Thanks deuce868, the code works great!