Anything can be used, I was using that as an example. The information in the database contains html elements that were passed through a form. For example a user would type in <b>some</b> and then the mysql field would contain <b>some</b>.
-----Original Message----- From: John Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:42 PM To: Erik Meyer; Php-General Subject: Re: [PHP] summarized results w/function From: "Erik Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Here is function > > function shorten_news_results ($input_text, $ending_text) { > $news_strip=str_word_count($input_text, 1); > $news_split=array_splice($news_strip, 0, 40); > $news_split[]=$ending_text; > $news_story=implode(' ', $news_split); > echo "$news_story"; > } Trying to split a string down the middle and not break up any kind of HTML that's present is difficult without looping through each character and keeping track of whether you're in an HTML element or not. Your original messages says <b> can be used. Is that the only tag? Is it a limited set of HTML or can anything be in the text? ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
