fer0an Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 hello I want select first 500 char of my text and insert it as intro text and all of them for full. anyone can help me? thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngreenwood6 Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 If this is only text then you could do something like: $text = 'Your text here'; $truncated_text = substr($text,0,500); However if you have tags in there its not as simple as that because if you cut it off in the middle of a tag it may break your layout. A simple workaround for this is to remove the tags before doing so like this: $text = 'Your text here'; $text = strip_tags($text); $truncated_text = substr($text,0,500); If you need to keep the formatting then a more complex solution will need to be put in place and can be quite confusing. Hopefully this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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