Convert substr filter from character count to word count

Question

I\'m using the getExcerpt() function below to dynamically set the length of a snippet of text. However, my substr method is currently based on character count. I\'d like to

Answer 1

If you want that your script should not ignore the period and comma and other punctuation symbols then you should adopt this approach.

 function getExcerpt($text)
{
   $my_excerptLength = 100; 
   $my_array = explode(" ",$text);
   $value = implode(" ",array_slice($my_array,0,$my_excerptLength));
   return 

}

Note : This is just an example.Hope it will help you.Don't forget to vote if it help you.