why not use substr? $preview = substr($string, 0, 50) .'...'; it will probably cut off in the middle of a word, but you can use strpos and check to see if the char is a space to get to the point you want. It's possible that the keywords wouldn't be in the first X numbers of characters.
Then use strstr() to find the first occurence of the first keyword and then use substr with an initial offset...
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