List Title But End At Last Word

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I have a site where I am listing titles, and since each title is larger than our needed space I have to use the following code to break it down if it is larger than a certain amount of characters, and then show ...:

<?php $title = get_the_title(); echo mb_strimwidth($title, 0, 45, '...'); ?>

Is there a way to possibly list only a certain amount of words, instead of characters, so we can at least have a full word at the end of the title instead of a character and then ...?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is on a WP system.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 25 '11 at 18:08

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You could for example use wordwrap() function and then discard all lines except the first one.

answered Jan 25 '11 at 18:08

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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This is a very common question, asked and answered many times on SO. Here are two solutions:

Trim headline to nearest word
Trimming a block of text to the nearest word when a certain character limit is reached?

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answered Jan 25 '11 at 18:10

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 25 '11 at 18:16

Since you're using multi-byte string functions, you can do:

if (mb_strlen($title) > 45) {
    $title = mb_substr($title, 0, 45);
    // make sure it ends in a word by chomping at last space
    $title = mb_substr($title, 0, mb_strrpos($title, " ")).'...';
}

echo $title;

List Title But End At Last Word

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