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Hello, this snippet crops the content and puts "..." to the end. My question is, how can I get the rest of the content ?

PHP Code:


		
			
<?



$str = "Yeah, but on my website, before I realized that converting quotes, etc, to entities was a bad idea, I already had a lot of stuff put into a database...Also, symbols like show up as question marks... and I don't really know how to fix that. In my four years of HTML experience, and two years of PHP experience, I've never been able to get character encoding to do what I want it to.";



$chars = "150";



function shortText($str, $chars)

{

if (strlen($str) > $chars)

    {

    $str = substr($str, 0, $chars);

    $str = $str . "...";

    return $str;

    }

else

    {

return $str;

    }

}



echo shortText($str, $chars);



?>

Do you mean like this ?

PHP Code:


		
			
<?

$str = "Yeah, but on my website, before I realized that converting quotes, etc, to entities was a bad idea, I already had a lot of stuff put into a database...Also, symbols like show up as question marks... and I don't really know how to fix that. In my four years of HTML experience, and two years of PHP experience, I've never been able to get character encoding to do what I want it to.";

$chars = "150";

function shortText($str, $chars)
{
if (strlen($str) > $chars)
    {
    $str = substr($str, 0, $chars);
    $str = $str . "<a href='/link-to-full-article.html'>...</a>";
    return $str;
    }
else
    {
return $str;
    }
}

echo shortText($str, $chars);

?>

So you can click on the 3 dots to go to the full page ?
or do you just mean echo($str); ?

I just want to get the section which starts with "..." (script does this after 150 chars) and finishes at the end.

Well since the above code isn't worried about cropping at a space or punctuation, I won't worry either. :)

php Code:

$remainder = substr( $str, $chars );