how to limit number of words in a description in php?

Question

I want to display a small intro of with a limited number of words without cutting the last word if it is too long... I know there is a php function substr() but it does not display the intro like "this is my starting text..." It makes it say "this is my starting t..." in PHP. Thank you for any answer.

                    <a href="#">'.substr($rows['title'],0,50).'</a>

Possible duplicate of [How to Truncate a string in PHP to the word closest to a certain number of characters?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/79960/how-to-truncate-a-string-in-php-to-the-word-closest-to-a-certain-number-of-chara) — Patrick Q, Nov 22 '16 at 19:00

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '16 at 18:52

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why not this:

implode(' ', array_slice(explode(' ', $rows['title']), 0, 50));

explode all the words;
get first 50;
recreate the sentence containing only first 50 words;

answered Nov 22 '16 at 18:52

Thanatos11th

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There are better ways and faster ways to do this, this would take longer than cutting the text down.- See my answer. – FluxCoder Nov 22 '16 at 18:56
I though he asked for a limit of words? – Thanatos11th Nov 22 '16 at 19:17

how to limit number of words in a description in php?

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