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, '...');

Answer 2

function trim_characters( $text, $length = 340 ) {

$length = (int) $length;
$text = trim( strip_tags( $text ) );

if ( strlen( $text ) > $length ) {
    $text = substr( $text, 0, $length + 1 );
    $words = preg_split( "/[\s]| /", $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY );
    preg_match( "/[\s]| /", $text, $lastchar, 0, $length );
    if ( empty( $lastchar ) )
        array_pop( $words );

    $text = implode( ' ', $words ); 
}

return $text;

}

Use this function trim_characters() to trims a string of words to a specified number of characters, gracefully stopping at white spaces. I think this is helpful to you.

Answer 3

It seems like you would want to first trim the text down to 340 characters exactly, then find the location of the last ' ' in the string and trim down to that amount. Like this:

$string = substr($string, 0, 340);
$string = substr($string, 0, strrpos($string, ' ')) . " ...";