Trimming a block of text to the nearest word when a certain character limit is reached?

Question

Here is the question: How would your trim a block of text to the nearest word when a certain amount of characters have past. I\'m not trying to limit a certain number words

Answer 1

See the wordwrap function.

I would probably do something like:

function wrap($string) {
  $wstring = explode("\n", wordwrap($string, 27, "\n") );
  return $wstring[0];
}

(If your strings already span across severeal lines, use other char - or pattern - for the split other than "\n")