Question

I have found a similar thread already where I got:

$sentence = preg_replace('/(.*?[?!.](?=\s|$)).*/', '\\1', $string);

This doesn’t seem to work in my function though:

<?function first_sentence($content) {
    $content = html_entity_decode(strip_tags($content));   
    $content = preg_replace('/(.*?[?!.](?=\s|$)).*/', '\\1', $content);
    return $content;


}?>

It seems to be not taking into account the first sentence when a sentence ends as the end of a paragraph. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Here’s correct syntax, sorry for my first response:

function firstSentence($string) {
      $sentences = explode(".", $string);
      return $sentences[0];
}