This would work if you replace the <br /> with <br> -- Otherwise, it's
too likely to break up "<br />" in the trim_text function and then you
end up with:
"start of string ... almost 255 words, blah blah blah<br"
On Fri, February 3, 2006 11:25 am, John Meyer wrote:
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> Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
>> Hi :)
>>
>> I am using the following function (that I found in the user comments
>> on
>> php.net manual) for trimming the number of words accepted via a form
>> field
>>
>> // Truncation is by word limit, not character limit. So if you limit
>> // to 255, then it will cut off a text item to 255 words, not 255
>> characters
>> function trim_text ($string, $truncation=250) {
>> $string = preg_split("/\s+/",$string,($truncation+1));
>> unset($string[(sizeof($string)-1)]);
>> return implode(' ',$string);
>> }
>
>
> How about
> $string = nl2br($string);
> $string = trim_text($string);
> $string = str_replace("<br />","\n",$string);
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