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[ducktape]

I have a small news script set up and it displays the whole article on the main page. I would like to make it select like the first 250 words from each store and then print like a [read more] link which would link to the whole story

 

[kabatak]

$shortnews = substr("$longnews", 0, 250);

 

[hohoho]

Originally posted by kabatak
$shortnews = substr("$longnews", 0, 250);

that's the first 250 chars, and not the first 250 words

$text_array = explode(" ", $longnews);
if(count($text_array)>250) {
  for($i=0;$i<250;$i++) {
    $shortnews .= $text_array[$i];
  }
  $shortnews .= " ...";
}

 

[kabatak]

oh yeah... i misread that

 

[ducktape]

thanks alot guys

 

[ducktape]

i just tried this finally and all the words just blend together what i have in the database is

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and it turns into this

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[Cagez]

$text_array = explode(" ", $longnews);
if(count($text_array)>250) {
  for($i=0;$i<250;$i++) {
    $shortnews .= $text_array[$i].' ';
  }
  $shortnews .= " ...";
}

 

[ducktape]

http://jackals.bluedotcom.com

that looks better but if you notice the first story has the ... then it repeats i changed the 250 to 75 words

below is the code im using which was provided with the few changes to work with my database

$text_array = explode(" ", $story);
if(count($text_array)>75) {
  for($i=0;$i<75;$i++) {
    $shortnews .= $text_array[$i].' ';
  }
  $shortnews .= " ...";
}

 

[ducktape]

anyone have any ideas?

 

[hohoho]

$text_array = explode(" ", $story);
if(count($text_array)>75) {
  $shortnews = "";
  for($i=0;$i<75;$i++) {
    $shortnews .= $text_array[$i].' ';
  }
  $shortnews .= " ...";
}