Ordinary Web Guy

function wordTrim($str, $len){
$wordCount = 0;
$charCount = 0;

$length = strlen(strip_tags($str));
for ($i=0; $i<$length; $i++) {
if ($str[$i] == ” “) {
$wordCount++;
$charCount++;
if ($wordCount == $len)
break;
} else {
$charCount++;
} # end if
} # end for loop

$newstr = substr($str, 0, $charCount);
return $newstr;
} # end function$str = “Hello World!”;
print wordTrim($str, 1); // Will print Hello

After reading about Character Encodings, I got a solution to one of my task:

function spEncode($string) {
return base64_encode($string);
}

function spDecode($string) {
$string = base64_decode($string);
}

/*** Inserting ***/
$MySQL = “INSERT INTO table (field) VALUES (‘”. spEncode($field) .”‘)”;
mysql_query($MySQL,$MyDB) or die(mysql_error());

/*** Retrieve **/
$MySQL = “SELECT field FROM table “;
$MyQuery = mysql_query($MySQL or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($MyQuery)) {
$field = spDecode($row[0]);
}
print nl2br($field);

Problem solved!