How to get first x chars from a string, without cutting off the last word?

Question

I have the following string in a variable.

Stack Overflow is as frictionless and painless to use as we could make it.

I want to fetch first 28 characte

Answer 1

Problems can arise if your string has html tags, &nbsp and multiple spaces. Here is what I use that takes care of everything:

function LimitText($string,$limit,$remove_html=0){
    if ($remove_html==1){$string=strip_tags($string);}
    $newstring = preg_replace("/(?:\s| )+/"," ",$string, -1); // replace &nbsp with space
    $newstring = preg_replace(array('/\s{2,}/','/[\t\n]/'),' ',$newstring); // replace duplicate spaces
    if (strlen($newstring)<=$limit) { return $newstring; } // ensure length is more than $limit
    $newstring = substr($newstring,0,strrpos(substr($newstring,0,$limit),' '));
    return $newstring;
}

usage:

$string = 'My wife is jealous of stackoverflow';
echo LimitText($string,20);
// My wife is jealous

usage with html:

$string = '<div><p>My wife is jealous of stackoverflow</p></div>';
echo LimitText($string,20,1);
// My wife is jealous

Answer 2

This is the easiest way:

<?php 
$title = "this is the title of my website!";
$number_of_characters = 15;
echo substr($title, 0, strrpos(substr($title, 0, $number_of_characters), " "));
?>

Answer 3

This is the simplest solution I know of...

substr($string,0,strrpos(substr($string,0,28),' ')).'...';

Answer 4

try:

$string='Stack Overflow is as frictionless and painless to use as we could make it.';
$n=28;
$break=strpos(wordwrap($string, $n,'<<||>>'),'<<||>>');
print substr($string,0,($break==0?strlen($string):$break)).(strlen($string)>$n?'...':'');

$string='Stack Overflow';
$n=28;
$break=strpos(wordwrap($string, $n,'<<||>>'),'<<||>>');
print substr($string,0,($break==0?strlen($string):$break)).(strlen($string)>$n?'...':'');

Answer 5

function truncate( $string, $limit, $break=" ", $pad="...") {

 // return with no change if string is shorter than $limit
 if(strlen($string) <= $limit){
    return $string;
 }

 $string = substr($string, 0, $limit);
 if(false !== ($breakpoint = strrpos($string, $break))){
    $string = substr($string, 0, $breakpoint);
 }
 return $string . $pad;
}

Answer 6

This's Working for me Perfect

function WordLimt($Keyword,$WordLimit){

    if (strlen($Keyword)<=$WordLimit) { return $Keyword; }
    $Keyword= substr($Keyword,0,strrpos(substr($Keyword,0,$WordLimit),' '));
    return $Keyword;
}

echo WordLimt($MyWords,28);

// OutPut : Stack Overflow is as

it will adjust and break on last Space without cut word...