Hello!

 

I'm making a blog, and I want to be able to manually set a cutoff point. For example, in the post, you put a <!-- more -->, just like in wordpress, and then you use preg_replace or something to change that and everything after it into a single "...". At the moment, I'm using a simple substr, but I'm worried that that might cut off an <img /> or something like that. Any advice, tips, tutorial or just straight up code?

 

Here's how I'm parsing the code atm:

 

$bodytext = stripslashes($a["post"]);
$bodytext = substr($bodytext, 0, 500);
$bodytext = "$bodytext...";
$bodytext = preg_replace("/\n/", "<br />", $bodytext);

You could just use explode() and set the delimiter to be your <!-- more -->

You could just use explode() and set the delimiter to be your <!-- more -->

 

would that look anything like this:

 

$display = explode("<!-- more -->", $bodytext);
$bodytext = $display[0];

ok, that works perfectly. Thanks so much for your help!

Look on php.net/substr people have posted fairly useful functions for this very problem.

Indeed it is lifeinsepia