Sep
2008
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PHP – Truncate a string to a given length

This is a function I use to display the ellipses when I want to truncate and display a summary of a larger body of text.

<?php
function truncateString($intLength = 0, $strText = "") {
    if ($intLength == 0) {
        return $strText;
    }
	
    if(strlen($strText) > $intLength) { 
        preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9]{0, " . $intLength . "}/", $strText, $strNewText); 
        return ($strNewText . "..."); 
    } 
    else {
        return $strText;
    }
}
?>

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