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[Brian O'Connor]

I played around with those functions, and I think I can get them to work 
with what I need.

However, I'm equally as interested in figuring out why this doesn't work as 
I am in getting a working function for what I need.

Thanks for those functions btw.

On 7/25/05, Hans Zaunere <lists at zaunere.com> wrote:
> 
>  Here are some old functions I've used to do similar things. I can't 
> guarantee how well they work, but they should give you some ideas at least.
>  http://www.pcomd.net/word_bevel
> http://www.pcomd.net/str_bevel
>  
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> *From:* talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] 
> *On Behalf Of *Brian O'Connor
> *Sent:* Monday, July 25, 2005 2:42 PM
> *To:* talk at lists.nyphp.org
> *Subject:* [nycphp-talk] strpos with space
> 
> I'm trying to create a function that displays the first 250 words of a 
> text, and then puts " ... [ full text ] " (as a link). I did my research and 
> I found the functions that I thought would work, however when I try to findt 
> he 250th space (to determine where the 250th word would be) it doesn't seem 
> to work, and the function only displays 250 characters.
> 
> Here is the function, maybe I am misunderstanding something:
> 
> function createTextPreview($text, $words = 250)
> {
> if(str_word_count($text) < $words) {
> return $text;
> } else {
> return substr($text, 0, strpos($text, ' ', $words)) . ' ... [ <a 
> href="link">full text</a> ]' . str_word_count($text);
> } 
> }
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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> Brian O'Connor 
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