Making Paragraphs A Minimum Length

[discomaniac]

Hi

I have a database driven php website, and I am looking for a way to make the first paragraph a MINIMUM length say 550 characters including spaces. The paragraph can be longer that this but not shorter, and it is to only affect the first paragraph.

As some of our content is sourced from writers that do not follow or writing model we need a way to control this and I understand that we would need to strip all paragraph and line break tags from the first 550 characters.

Is this possible, thank you and I look forward to your replies as this one has got me stumped

[myfayt]

You are looking for either of these.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr-replace.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

[discomaniac]

Thank you but I do not think that these will work as from what I see none of these will display the first 550 characters and remove the paragraph and line break formatting or am I missing something.

Which one do you think would work as I do not see which one would apply.

[Adee]

Originally Posted by discomaniac

Thank you but I do not think that these will work as from what I see none of these will display the first 550 characters and remove the paragraph and line break formatting or am I missing something.

Which one do you think would work as I do not see which one would apply.

Try this.. it's lulzy but it worked for me

PHP Code:

<?php

$str = "aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied <p>aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied <br />aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied </p>aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied<br /> aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied <br />aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied aocibedied";

if(strlen($str) > 550)
{
    $shortened = '';
    for($i=0;$i<550;$i++)
    {
        $shortened .= $str[$i];
    }
    
    echo "Length: ". strlen($shortened) . "<br />";
    $shortened = strip_tags($shortened);
    echo $shortened;
}



?>

[discomaniac]

I tried it but couldn't get it to work, here is the code that I used



<?php

$str =

$images=getImages('articles',$info['article_id']);
if($images){

;

if(strlen($str) > 550)
{
$shortened = '';
for($i=0;$i<550;$i++)
{
$shortened .= $str[$i];
}

echo "Length: ". strlen($shortened) . "<br />";
$shortened = strip_tags($shortened);
echo $shortened;
}
?>

[Adee]

Originally Posted by discomaniac

I tried it but couldn't get it to work, here is the code that I used



<?php

$str =

$images=getImages('articles',$info['article_id']);
if($images){

;

if(strlen($str) > 550)
{
$shortened = '';
for($i=0;$i<550;$i++)
{
$shortened .= $str[$i];
}

echo "Length: ". strlen($shortened) . "<br />";
$shortened = strip_tags($shortened);
echo $shortened;
}
?>

$str has to be something since its the variable that is used in the conditional......

[discomaniac]

Thank you but the articles are stored in our database so do you know how I would work around this please?

[discomaniac]

Any ideas please?

[Adee]

make $str = the call to your database for an article..