Text Limiter
 

Hey,

Looking for a way to somehow, show 3 lines of text, every certain amount of characters it breaks and starts a new line once it's at the end of the third line it shows a ... if theres more text but it can't break in the middle of a word but if the word is too long move it to the next line with the rest, any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks!

http://php.net/wordwrap should help.

Yep, the wordwrap function along with the concatenation for the ellipsis would do it, no?

Pretty useful function, i used my current text limiter function to limit the text length then got wordwrap to break it down over several lines, thanks for all your help :D

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I personally dislike wordwrap because if your using html tags it trims the tags which i don't like. This would be a nice update to the function.

There are a lot of scripts going arround, even one which defined the PIXELS of a character, like a is 4, and p is 3,9. So, you can define, into the function, how long you want your sentence to be. For example shortenCode($text, $pixels); Define yours, what ever you please.

Next, you can, if you want, define the cutter, as I like to call it, which ends the code with, for example "..." or "...<br /><br /><strong>Read More</strong>". Only "read more" of course, will act as a full link to the posted message.

It's a little bit overkill, but for those who want to be precise, should use that. If somebody is interested, I can find it (again). ;)