Show excerpt from blog with Laravel

Question

I am trying to show excerptsfrom blog posts. I can do this with phpand mysql. However, I am wondering if there is a more “friendly” way to do this within Laravel.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can do this using the method words

Default:

 words($value,$words = 100, $end='...');

You can implement it this way

Str::words($post->body);

Str::words($post->body,10); //will show first 10 words

Answer 2

You can easily use str_limit.

Inside the PHP files:

str_limit($value, $limit = 100, $end = '...')

Inside Blade Templates files:

{{ str_limit($value, $limit = 100, $end = '...') }}

I saw that it is available from version 4.2 to 5.6

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