Show only the first two words from product name

Submitted by chrisst1 on Sat, 2010-11-06 10:50 in Price Tapestry

Hi David

Hope you are keeping well, after several years with this script I thought its time to upgrade and improve.

I am trying to show only the first two words from a product name using:


<?php
$name  = $product["name"];
$parts = explode(" ", $name);
print translate("&nbsp;");
print $parts[0];
print translate("&nbsp;");
print $parts[1];
?>

Trouble is it leaves a space before, ideally what I am trying to do I set a fixed amount of characters and only show one, two or tree words up to the character limit but not a partial word which substr($product["name"],0,20) does.

Not sure whether I am getting the above right, could you point me in the right direction please?

Chris

Hi Chris, Here's a substr

Submitted by support on Sat, 2010-11-06 13:48

Hi Chris,

Here's a substr function that will break on the next space after the specified limit:

  function substr_space($text,$length)

  {

    if (strlen($text) > $length)

    {

      $breakOffset = strpos($text," ",$length);

      if ($breakOffset !== false)

      {

        $text = substr($text,0,$breakOffset);

      }

    }

    return $text;

  }

Add the function to the top of your file, and then use:

  $name = $product["name"];

  $name = substr_space($name,20);

Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com

Thanks David That worked

Submitted by chrisst1 on Tue, 2010-11-09 14:22

Thanks David

That worked great as always.

I was having a look at your new version and the logo upload, have you thought of adding a merchant description and link field? Also a couple of years back you did a manage reviews page code for us, maybe good to add in.

Chris