It would appear that pretty much anyone can add rich snippets for any site. I certainly hope that Google finds a way to prevent this 'gaming' of their SERPs, and soon. (more…)

Often times you need cut off a specific string of text to get just a piece of it, perhaps to fit an excerpt of the latest news on your homepage. When you want to do that, you'll need to use the substr() function to do that. The main problem with this though, is that if you create a substring of certain length, you can easily cut words in half and lose their meaning. You need to be able to create a substring that keeps words intact. There are a couple methods that you can use to do this.
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