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tomexsans
tomexsans

Reputation: 4527

how to get an excerpt of some post contents

I have a page where i display all post coming from the database, I don't want to display all the contents just the excerpts from it. This is just easy i know, i could search the internet for it, but i don't know what you call it. Anybody can point me to the right road thanks. BTW i'm using codeigniter for my site.

example of what i am talking about is:

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**The Title**

sdfgsjdhfglksjhfdgksdjfhglskdjfghlsdkjfhglskdjfhgslkjdfhg(read more).

**The second title**   
lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum(read more).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1229

Answers (2)

Zaher
Zaher

Reputation: 1150

or you can use the built-in text helper http://s.zah.me/KJXK6o and use one of the two functions word_limiter or character_limiter

like

$string = "Here is a nice text string consisting of eleven words.";

$string = word_limiter($string, 4);

// Returns: Here is a nice…

Upvotes: 3

Galen
Galen

Reputation: 30170

There are a bunch of ways you can do this depending on where you want to cut it off.

An easy way is to split the string with a space then take the first X spaces/

$excerpt = array_slice( explode( " ", $text ), 0, 30 );

This way it wont cut the text off in the middle of a word.

Upvotes: 2

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