Truncating Text on Word Boundaries : strrev « String « PHP

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Truncating Text on Word Boundaries

 
<?php
function truncate_text_nicely($string, $max, $moretext) {
    if (strlen($string) > $max) {
        $max -= strlen($moretext);

        $string = strrev(strstr(strrev(substr($string, 0, $max)), ' '));

        $string .= $moretext;
    }

    return $string;
}

$str = 'This is a test.This is a test.This is a test.This is a test.This is a test.This is a test.';

$values = truncate_text_nicely($str, 20, '...');

echo "<pre>{$values}</pre>";
?>
  
  

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