show only the first 30 words in the_content()

show me your cut-code

ok here it is:

<?php
function getWords($text, $limit)
{
$array = explode(” “, $text, $limit+1);

if (count($array) > $limit)
{
unset($array[$limit]);
}
return implode(” “, $array);
}
?>

when i use it like this:

<?php
$text = “Dies ist ein Text mit fünfzehn W?rtern, von dem wir die ersten vier haben wollen.”;

echo getWords($text, 4);
?>

it works fine, but when i use it like this:

<?php
$mycontent = the_content();
echo getWords($mycontent, 4);
?>

it doesn’t work!

thanks
yavuz

<?php
$mycontent = get_the_content();
echo getWords($mycontent, 4);
?>

the_content() just echoes, whereas get_the_content() allows you to pass the post content to a variable. Also note that no text formatting occurs within get_the_content(), so if you don’t like the ‘raw’ output, try this:

<?php
$mycontent = getWords(get_the_content(), 4);
echo apply_filters('the_content', $mycontent);
?>

Final warning: HTML elements can cause problems when excerpting post content, in that there’s no way (using the code above) to verify a tag has been closed within your cut.