dynamicguy · August 6, 2012 09:13 · Aug 6, 2012
diff --git a/elipsize.php b/elipsize.php
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+<?php
+
+if ( ! function_exists('ellipsize'))
+{
+	/**
+	 * Ellipsize String
+	 *
+	 * This function will strip tags from a string, split it at its max_length and ellipsize
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	string to ellipsize
+	 * @param	int	max length of string
+	 * @param	mixed	int (1|0) or float, .5, .2, etc for position to split
+	 * @param	string	ellipsis ; Default '...'
+	 * @return	string	ellipsized string
+	 */
+	function ellipsize($str, $max_length, $position = 1, $ellipsis = '&hellip;')
+	{
+		// Strip tags
+		$str = trim(strip_tags($str));
+
+		// Is the string long enough to ellipsize?
+		if (strlen($str) <= $max_length)
+		{
+			return $str;
+		}
+
+		$beg = substr($str, 0, floor($max_length * $position));
+		$position = ($position > 1) ? 1 : $position;
+
+		if ($position === 1)
+		{
+			$end = substr($str, 0, -($max_length - strlen($beg)));
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			$end = substr($str, -($max_length - strlen($beg)));
+		}
+
+		return $beg.$ellipsis.$end;
+	}
+}