Posted on Aug 23, 2011 in
PHP
Word count like function Ver.1.0! This function can count your input text and display only part of it (like a description) without cutting words in half function smart_text ($text_input_var[string] ,text_length[int]) { $strip_content=stripslashes($content); $all_content=strlen(“$strip_content”); $standard_content=substr($strip_content ,$text_length); $compare=stristr($standard_content ,” “); $minus_content=strlen(“$compare”); $result_content=$all_content-$minus_content; $display_content=substr($strip_content ,0, $result_content); $striped_content=stripslashes($display_content); echo nl2br($striped_content); } For example i insert a 300 words test [...]
Posted on Aug 23, 2011 in
PHP
Trim Function Left – ltrim() function <?php $text = “\t\tThese are a few words … “; $trimmed = ltrim($text); // $trimmed = “These are a few words … ” $trimmed = ltrim($text,” \t.”); // $trimmed = “These are a few words … ” $clean = ltrim($binary,”x00..x1F”); // trim the ASCII control characters at the beginning [...]
Posted on Aug 23, 2011 in
PHP
This function allows you to take any string and split it into fairly even pieces <? function breakString($str=”", $pieces=”") { // Find out how big the string is $len = strlen($str); // String size can’t be less than pieces if ($len < $pieces) { $ary[0] = “String Size is less than Number of Pieces”; return [...]
Posted on Aug 23, 2011 in
PHP
Sub String Replace <?php $var = ‘ABCDEFGH:/MNRPQR/’; echo “Original: $var<hr>\n”; /* These two examples replace all of $var with ‘bob’. */ echo substr_replace($var, ‘bob’, 0) . “<br>\n”; echo substr_replace($var, ‘bob’, 0, strlen($var)) . “<br>\n”; /* Insert ‘bob’ right at the beginning of $var. */ echo substr_replace($var, ‘bob’, 0, 0) . “<br>\n”; /* These next two [...]
Posted on Aug 23, 2011 in
PHP
Sorting Strings <?php $arr1 = $arr2 = array(“img12.png”,”img10.png”,”img2.png”,”img1.png”); echo “Standard string comparison\n”; usort($arr1,”strcmp”); print_r($arr1); echo “\nNatural order string comparison\n”; usort($arr2,”strnatcmp”); print_r($arr2); ?> /* Output Standard string comparison Array ( [0] => img1.png [1] => img10.png [2] => img12.png [3] => img2.png ) Natural order string comparison Array ( [0] => img1.png [1] => img2.png [2] [...]
Posted on Aug 23, 2011 in
PHP
Short text sample from long text articles When you want to show a snippet of text for an article but dont want to cut off words in the middle, use this little function. <?php function shortenText(&$source_text, $word_count) { $word_count++; $long_enough = TRUE; if ((trim($source_text) != “”) && ($word_count > 0)) { $split_text = explode(” “, [...]
