Words limiter function

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    I'm looking for a function for limit the text to a number words.

    example : limitarticle(a a a as as sdasf asdad asdasd asdasdf asdasda, 4) = "a a a as"

    understand? :(

    sorry for my bad english
     
    ruud, Jul 15, 2007 IP
  2. Chemo

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/** 
 * Function to return break text and add "more" link
 * @author Bobby Easland 
 * @version 1.0
 * @param string $text Text to be broken
 * @param integer $limit Number of words to limit
 * @param string $more_link String to be added at end of return string
 * @return string
 */
function breakText($text, $limit = 25, $more_link = '...'){
	$container = explode(' ', ereg_replace("[[:space:]]+", ' ', $text));
	$i = 0;
	$words = array();
	while ( (count($words) < $limit) && isset($container[$i]) ){
		if ( !empty($container[$i]) ){
			$words[] = $container[$i];
			if (count($words) == $limit){
				$words[] = $more_link;
			} # end if
		} # end if
		unset($container[$i]);
		$i++;
	} # end while
	return implode(' ', $words);
} # end function
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    Chemo, Jul 15, 2007 IP