Hi!

I got a shortcode (code that can be called elsewhere on the page) om my webpage that looks like this:

PHP Code:

SC_BEGIN NEWSBODY2
global $tp;
$news_item = getcachedvars('current_news_item');
$news_body = $tp -> toHTML($news_item['news_body']);
return $news_body;
SC_END 


This calls a text from the mysql.

But I want to edit this code so if the text is more than say 3 words long it will return with three dots like this:

Word1 word2 word3 …

I found a code that could achieve this:

PHP Code:

$threshold_length = 3; // 3 words max
$phrase = 'word1 word2 word3 word4'; // populate this with the text you want to display
$abody = str_word_count($phrase,2);
if(count($abody) >= $threshold_length){ // gotta cut
  $tbody = array_keys($abody);
  echo '' . substr($phrase,0,$tbody[$threshold_length]) . '... ';
} else { // put the whole thing
  echo ' . $phrase . ';
} 


I tried to implement this code into the shortcode above but cant succed. But Im not very good in coding.

Any help with solution would be very much apreciated.

So that the code just calls say the first three words in the mysql

Thanks!

/ P

Try this:

PHP Code:

$threshold_length = 3; // 3 words max
$phrase = 'word1 word2 word3 word4'; // populate this with the text you want to display
$words = explode(' ', $phrase);
if ( count($words) > $threshold_length ) {
  $phrase = $words[0] . ' ' . $words[1] . ' ' . $words[2] . ' ...';
}
echo $phrase;