How to cut the string without breaking any words

12. Dec, 2007 5 Comments 

<?php
function Cut($string, $max_length){
	if (strlen($string) > $max_length){
		$string = substr($string, 0, $max_length);
		$pos = strrpos($string, " ");
		if($pos === false) {
				return substr($string, 0, $max_length)."...";
		}
			return substr($string, 0, $pos)."...";
	}else{
		return $string;
	}
}

$string = 'How to cut the string without breaking any words';
echo Cut($string,30);

?>

The output is

function Cut($string, $max_length){
if (strlen($string) > $max_length){
$string = substr($string, 0, $max_length);
$pos = strrpos($string, ” “);
if($pos === false) {
return substr($string, 0, $max_length).”…”;
}
return substr($string, 0, $pos).”…”;
}else{
return $string;
}
}

$string = ‘How to cut the string without breaking any words’;
echo ‘

‘;
echo Cut($string,30);
echo ‘

‘;
?>

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5 Responses to “How to cut the string without breaking any words”

  1. Dennis Reply 08. Jan, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    Very use full code. Thanks RICH.

  2. ukay Reply 15. Dec, 2008 at 2:00 am

    nice tut just a hint I think you don’t need the ellipsis(…) anymore for that, you can just put the read more text instead somewhat like how google adsense diplays their text in adsense

  3. afsane Reply 13. Mar, 2009 at 11:31 am

    thank u so much
    it work very good

  4. Tolenca Reply 11. Aug, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Muchas gracias…

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