Request for increased functionality: drupalicious_summarise
The drupalicious_summarise function works great. Thank you very much for the contribution.
I've searched and found a method to supply a "...continue reading..." string by performing a test on str_word_count but I was hoping someone could suggest the same functionality directly within the original drupalicious_summarise function. I've tried many times and failed. The output of the drupalicious_summarise routine always results in a sentence that ends with a period. Surely there must be a way to append a second string (perhaps a variable) so that after the period would appear something like this, "......this is the end of the sentence. [..continued..]" directly within the drupalicious_summarise function.
Thank you in advance,
MOTE
EDIT:
I FINALLY figured it out! Here's the mod:
function drupalicious_summarise($paragraph, $limit)
{
$extra = " [..continued..]";
$textfield = strtok($paragraph, " ");
while($textfield)
{
$text .= " $textfield";
$words++;
if(($words >= $limit) && ((substr($textfield, -1) == "!")||(substr($textfield, -1) == ".")))
break;
$textfield = strtok(" ");
}
if (str_word_count($text) >= $limit) $text = $text . $extra;
return ltrim($text);
}Thanks for making me think! :-)
MOTE
How to add link to the ..continued text
I assume it will just show ...continued... with no link to that node. How do we add the link????
Geshan
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