How do you cut off text after a certain amount of characters in PHP?

Question

I have two string that i want to limit to lets say the first 25 characters for example. Is there a way to cut off text after the 25th character and add a ... to the end of the s

Answer 1

I would go with Pascal MARTIN's answer, with some additional improvements. Because;

1 - "PHP wordwrap", respects word boundaries automatically

2 - If your string contains a word more than 25 chars(aagh, so there is nothing to do) you can force "PHP wordwrap" to cut word.(improvement)

3 - If your string is shorter than 25 chars, then "..." will seem ugly after a complete sentence.(improvement)

$str = "This string might be longer than 25 chars, or might not!";
// we are forcing to cut long words...
$wrapped = wordwrap($str, 25, "\n", 1);
var_dump($wrapped);

$lines = explode("\n", $wrapped);
var_dump($lines);

// if our $str is shorter than 25, there will be no $lines[1]
(array_key_exists('1', $lines)) ? $suffix = '...' : $suffix = '';
$new_str = $lines[0] . $suffix;
var_dump($new_str);