How can I truncate a string to the first 20 words in PHP

Question

How can I truncate a string after 20 words in PHP

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To Nearest Space

Truncates to nearest preceding space of target character. Demo

$str The string to be truncated
$chars The amount of characters to be stripped, can be overridden by $to_space
$to_space boolean for whether or not to truncate from space near $chars limit

Function

function truncateString($str, $chars, $to_space, $replacement="...") {
   if($chars > strlen($str)) return $str;

   $str = substr($str, 0, $chars);
   $space_pos = strrpos($str, " ");
   if($to_space && $space_pos >= 0) 
       $str = substr($str, 0, strrpos($str, " "));

   return($str . $replacement);
}

Sample

<?php

$str = "this is a string that is just some text for you to test with";

print(truncateString($str, 20, false) . "\n");
print(truncateString($str, 22, false) . "\n");
print(truncateString($str, 24, true) . "\n");
print(truncateString($str, 26, true, " :)") . "\n");
print(truncateString($str, 28, true, "--") . "\n");

?>

Output

this is a string tha...
this is a string that ...
this is a string that...
this is a string that is :)
this is a string that is--

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Here is what I have implemented   function summaryMode  text   limit   link        if  str word count  text  0   gt   limit             numwords   str word count  text  2            pos   array keys  numwords            text   substr  text  0   pos  limit         lt a href     link    gt Read More lt  a gt              return  text      As you can see it is based off karim79 s answer  all that needed changing was that the if statement also needed to check against words not characters   I also added a link to main function for convenience  So far it hsa worked flawlessly  Thanks to the original solution provider

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To limit words  am using the following little code         string    hello world   I love chocolate         explode   array slice explode       string   0  4        implode   implode      explode          echo  implode     implot will give   hello world   I

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based on      s answer   function truncate words  string  words 20     return preg replace      w  W       words-1      w              1     string       or  function truncate words with ellipsis  string  words 20  ellipsis             new   preg replace      w  W       words-1      w              1     string    if  new     string     return  new  ellipsis    else    return  string

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function getShortString  string  wordCount  etc   true           expString   explode      string         wordsInString   count  expString        if  wordsInString  gt    wordCount                    shortText                for  i 0   i  lt   wordCount-1   i                             shortText     expString  i                           return   etc    shortText           shortText               else return  string

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I made my function   function summery  text   limit         words preg split    s      text         count count preg split    s      text          if   count  gt   limit               text NULL            for  i 0  i lt  limit  i                   text   words  i                  text                       return  text

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Split the string  into an array  by  lt space   and then take the first 20 elements of that array

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This worked me for UNICODE  UTF8  sentences too   function myUTF8truncate  string   width       if  mb str word count  string   gt   width             string  preg replace      w  W      p L    W       width-1      w              1     string             return  string

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function limit word  start  limit  text                limit  limit-1               stripped string  strip tags  text                string array  explode      stripped string               if count  string array  gt  limit                truncated array   array splice  string array  start  limit                text implode      truncated array                     return  text                             else return  text

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use PHP tokenizer function strtok   in a loop    token   strtok  string           we assume that words are separated by sapce or tab  i   0   first20Words       while   token     false  amp  amp   i  lt  20         first20Words     token       token   strtok            i      echo  first20Words

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what about   chunk split  str 20     Entry in the PHP Manual

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Try regex   You need something that would match 20 words  or 20 word boundaries    So  my regex is terrible so correct me if this isn t accurate       w  b  20     And here are some examples of regex in php

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function limitText  string  limit           if strlen  string   gt   limit                    string   substr  string  0  limit                             return  string      this will return 20 words  I hope it will help

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Change the number 3 to the number 20 below to get the first 20 words  or pass it as parameter   The following demonstrates how to get the first 3 words   so change the 3 to 20 to change the default value    function first3words  s   limit 3        return preg replace      w  W       limit-1      w              1     s         var dump first3words  hello yes  world wah ha ha          gt   hello yes  world  var dump first3words  hello yes world wah ha ha           gt   hello yes world  var dump first3words  hello yes world wah ha ha           gt   hello yes world  var dump first3words  hello yes world          gt   hello yes world  var dump first3words  hello yes world          gt   hello yes world  var dump first3words  hello yes          gt   hello yes  var dump first3words  hello          gt   hello  var dump first3words  a         gt   a  var dump first3words            gt

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Another solution      aContent   explode       cContent    cContent        nCount   count  aContent   for  nI   0    nI  lt  20  amp  amp   nI  lt   nCount    nI          cContent     aContent  nI           trim  cContent        echo   lt p gt      cContent     lt  p gt

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use explode      Example from the docs      Example 1  pizza     piece1 piece2 piece3 piece4 piece5 piece6    pieces   explode       pizza   echo  pieces 0      piece1 echo  pieces 1      piece2   note that explode has a limit function  So you could do something like    message   implode      explode       long message  20

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Its not my own creation  its a modification of previous posts  credits goes to karim79   function limit text  text   limit         strings    text        if  strlen  text   gt   limit               words   str word count  text  2              pos   array keys  words             if sizeof  pos   gt  limit                           text   substr  text  0   pos  limit                                  return  text                return  text

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This looks pretty good to me      A common problem when creating dynamic   web pages  where content is sourced   from a database  content management   system or external source such as an   RSS feed  is that the input text can   be too long and cause the page layout   to  break        One solution is to truncate the text   so that it fits on the page  This   sounds simple  but often the results   aren t as expected due to words and   sentences being cut off at   inappropriate points

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function limit text  text   limit        if  str word count  text  0   gt   limit             words   str word count  text  2            pos     array keys  words            text    substr  text  0   pos  limit                      return  text     echo limit text  Hello here is a long sentence that will be truncated by the   5    Outputs  Hello here is a long

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function wordLimit  str   limit         arr   explode       str       if count  arr   lt    limit           return  str                result           for  i   0   i  lt   limit   i              result     arr  i                 return trim  result     echo wordLimit  Hello Word   1      Hello echo wordLimit  Hello Word   2      Hello Word echo wordLimit  Hello Word   3      Hello Word echo wordLimit  Hello Word   0

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Here s one I use        truncate   function   str   length             if  strlen   str    gt   length  amp  amp  false     strpos   str                         str   preg split               substr   str  0   length                 return htmlspecialchars  str 0       amp hellip              else               return htmlspecialchars  str                        return  truncate   myStr  50

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If you code on Laravel just use Illuminate Support Str  here is example  Str  words  category- gt publication- gt title  env  WORDS COUNT HOME             Hope this was helpful

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Lets assume we have the string variables  string   start  and  limit we can borrow 3 or 4 functions from PHP to achieve this  They are    script tags   PHP function to remove the unnecessary HTML and PHP tags  if there are any   This wont be necessary  if there are no HTML or PHP tags  explode   to split the  string into an array array splice   to specify the number of words and where it ll start from  It ll be controlled by vallues assigned to our  start and  limit variables  and finally  implode   to join the array elements into your truncated string    function truncateString  string   start   limit        stripped string  strip tags  string      if there are HTML or PHP tags      string array  explode      stripped string        truncated array   array splice  string array  start  limit        truncated string implode      truncated array        return  truncated string       It s that simple    I hope this was helpful

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Simple and fully equiped truncate   method   function truncate  string   width   etc                 wrapped   explode   trun    wordwrap  string   width    trun    false   2       return  wrapped 0     isset  wrapped 1      etc

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With triple dots   function limitWords  text   limit         word arr   explode       text        if  count  word arr   gt   limit             words   implode      array slice  word arr   0   limit                      return  words             return  text

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text  some text    len strlen  text        limit 500     char     if  len gt  limit            text substr  text 0  limit            words explode       text            wcount count  words            ll strlen  words  wcount             text substr  text 0   limit- ll 1

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Try below code     text    implode      array slice explode       text   0  32    echo  text

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Something like this could probably do the trick    lt  php   words   implode      array slice split  input       21   0  20

[php] How can I truncate a string to the first 20 words in PHP?

To Nearest Space

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