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adamturtle on 06/01/11


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String to sentences function

 / Published in: PHP
 

A simple function that will split a given string into sentences, and then return the number of sentences specified. Quick and dirty.

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  1. /* 
  2. @param: $content - string to be returned
  3. @param: $sentences - number of sentences to return
  4. */
  5. function limit_sentences($content, $sentences) {
  6.  
  7. 	$text = html_entity_decode(strip_tags($content));
  8. 	$text = explode('.', $text);
  9. 	for( $i=1; $i<=$sentences; $i++ ){
  10. 		$output .= $text[$i] . '. ';
  11. 	}
  12. 	if($output){
  13. 		return $output;	
  14. 	}
  15. 	else {
  16. 		return $content;
  17. 	}
  18. }

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