Get string from excerpt

  • Hi, i want to use store the string from excerpt field in wordpress post table to variable and this is what i’m writing:

    $excerpt_str = the_excerpt()
echo $excerpt_str

    i want to store the string from excerpt to the variable excerpt_str,
    but it doesn’t work the way it suppose to be…
    any solution, thanks…..

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  • Have you tried get_the_excerpt() ?

    Thread Starter mrtwork

    (@mrtwork)

    it works, thanks
    but here’s the tricky part. I want to use that with sql string to write another plugin

    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM aniwo_posts
WHERE aniwo_content='$excerpt_str'");

    and the result doesn’t come out. Any solutions? thanks..

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