How to Truncate a string in PHP to the word closest to a certain number of characters?

Question

I have a code snippet written in PHP that pulls a block of text from a database and sends it out to a widget on a webpage. The original block of text can be a lengthy artic

Answer 1

I believe this is the easiest way to do it:

$lines = explode('♦♣♠',wordwrap($string, $length, '♦♣♠'));
$newstring = $lines[0] . ' • • •';

I'm using the special characters to split the text and cut it.