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

Use this:

the following code will remove ','. If you have anyother character or sub-string, you may use that instead of ','

substr($string, 0, strrpos(substr($string, 0, $comparingLength), ','))

// if you have another string account for

substr($string, 0, strrpos(substr($string, 0, $comparingLength-strlen($currentString)), ','))