How to truncate a string in PHP to the sentence closest to a certain number of characters?

Question

I want to truncate/shorten my string to the sentence closest to a ceratain number of characters.

I have a working function, but my function truncate to the word clos

Answer 1

I simply use this method and it works as required!

This way no new functions are created and the code is clean and simple.

$article = strlen($article) > $maxlength ? substr($article, 0, $maxlength) : $article;