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String Truncate (July 19, 2006)

If you write a CMS you will have to truncate your contents to automagically create summaries. The following function will do the job:

If you write a given string (default '<!--MORE-->') inside one of your contents, the text will be truncated to that position.

Else the function looks for the nearest word boundary after at least $len characters and cuts there. Because that might be directly inside your text $append will be appended. To prevent that the markup is messed up, closetags() is called.

    /**
     * if $splitter is found inside the $str, everything before $splitter will be
     * returned.
     * else truncates $str after $length chars (actually at the nearest
     * word boundary after at least $len characters). Also $append will be added to
     * $str
     *
     * @param string &$str
     * @param integer $length
     * @param optional string $hardbreak
     * @param optional string $append
     * @return string
     * @author Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>
     */
    function truncate($str, $len = 200, $splitter = '<!--MORE-->', $append = '…') {
        if (strlen($str) <= $len) {
            return $str;
        }
        if ($len > 0 && !strstr($str, $splitter)) {
            preg_match('#^(?:[\x00-\x7F]|[\xC0-\xFF][\x80-\xBF]+){'.$len.',}\b#U', $str, $matches);
            $str = $matches[0];
            # remove trailing opener tags and close all other open tags:
            $str = closetags(preg_replace('#\s*<[^>]+>?\s*$#', '', $str).$append);
        } else {
            $arr = explode($splitter, $str, 2);
            $str = $arr[0];
        }
        return $str;
    }

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