Tiffany B. Brown

a mish-mosh of stuff

Posts tagged: code

[PHP quickie] Select a certain number of words from a string
An alternative to subst() that selects entire words rather than a specified number of characters. I used this on a recent project where I needed to create a meta tag description from text and HTML stored in a database. Uses PHP’s native str_word_count() function. function select_number_of_words($input,$number_of_words){ $output = ”; $input = strip_tags($input); $input = str_word_count($input,1); [...] [26 Mar 2009]