Trim text to 340 chars

Question

I\'m pulling blog posts from a DB. I want to trim the text to a max length of 340 characters.

If the blog post is over 340 characters I want to trim the text to the las

Answer 1

If you have the mbstring extension enabled (which is on most servers nowadays), you can use the mb_strimwidth function.

echo mb_strimwidth($string, 0, 340, '...');