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Created July 24, 2009 11:27
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Code will trim a string to a maximum length, and will not break sentences (will grab as many sentences from text as it can up to the maximum string length).
<?php
function trim_text_in_sentences($intLength, $strText) {
$intLastPeriodPos = strpos(strrev(substr($strText, 0, $intLength)), '.');
if ($intLastPeriodPos === false) {
$strReturn = substr($strText, 0, $intLength);
} else {
$strReturn = substr($strText, 0, ($intLength - $intLastPeriodPos));
}
return $strReturn;
}
?>
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