Remove long text

Can anybody post me the function to remove off the long text to lil bit short like into 100 words only??

suppose there is a long text more than 200 words then that function should only show 100 words and at the last should show ... and link for more


thanks

 

Here is an example:

<?
//test it with some short text
$text = "some short text that doesn't need to be cut";
cut_text($text);


printf("<hr />");

//now something long enough to be cut
$text = '';
for($i = 0; $i < 255; $i++)
  $text .= "long ";

cut_text($text);


function cut_text($text, $words = 200)
{
  $c = 0;
  $len = 0;

  for($i = 0; $i < strlen($text); $i++)
  {
    if($text{$i} == ' ')
      $c++;

    if($c == $words)
    {
      $len = $i;
      break;
    }
  }

  if($len)
    printf("<div id='cut_text'>%s<br />
    <div style='display: none' id='other_text'>%s</div>
    <input type='button' value='Show More' onclick=\"document.getElementById('other_text').style.display='inline'\">
    </div>",
    substr($text, 0, $len),
    substr($text, $len, strlen($text)-$len));
  else
    printf("<div id='cut_text'>%s</div>", $text);
}
?>

PHP:

You can change the number of words after which the script will cut the text, just pass second argument to cut_text().

You owe me at least a beer for that one

 

thanks for the script xlcho