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Originally posted by randy
You could do what PostNuke does. When you go to post an article you get two boxes. One for summary text and one for extended text.
They can enter the first paragraph in the summary and rest in extended. That way you are pulling the summary from one field without trying to do a word or character count and you can just display both fields when someone wants to read the whole article. |
Interesting idea; I suppose it could also be done in such a way as to automatically grab the first 100 words (or 50 or 25, whatever) from the article and then store the article as two seperate fields in the db, rather than having to have two entry boxes for a summation and then the article.