How to Limit the Number Words to Output in PHP
I recently created a page that contains a list of articles. I wanted to show the title and the excerpt, but the output of the excerpt is too long and breaking my list. So here is what I did to limit the number of words:
Create a function that will accept two parameters (the text to be limited and the desired number of words)
1 2 3 4 | function limit_words($text, $limit) { $words = explode(" ",$text); return implode(" ",array_splice($words,0,$limit)); } |
Then we call the function to our page:
1 2 3 | $text = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"; echo limit_words($text,5); |
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