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JuliaKM on 09/21/07

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Make an HTML Correct Teaser

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// makeTeaser: makes a teaser for the number of words specified
function makeTeaser($text, $numWords) {
  $words = split(' ', $text);
  $words = array_chunk($words, $numWords);
  $output = implode(' ', $words[0]);
  $output = strip_tags($output) . '...';
 
  return $output;
}

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Posted By: berkes on September 21, 2007

How does this correct the HTML? AFAIKS it does a far worse job then core. Core teaser splitter at least tries to take HTML tags into consideration.

Posted By: JuliaKM on November 9, 2007

You're totally right. I posted this after messing around with a teaser from another CMS.

Posted By: makedon on May 9, 2009

// makeTeaser: makes a teaser for the number of words specified function makeTeaser($text, $numWords) { $words = split(' ', $text); $words = arraychunk($words, $numWords); $output = implode(' ', $words[0]); $output = striptags($output) . '...';

return $output; }

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