Easy and dumb question!
 

Hi.

dumb question.

I am fetching some content (lets call it news) from mysql, i have two variables, one gets the title and the other gets the content. they are:

$content[morelink] = $row[11];
$content[moretext] = $row[12];

now, the problem is i have some html with the variables, and if there is nothing in the database i don't want it to still put in the html into the page,

so say i have $content[moretext] = $row[12] xyz; and there is nothing in $row[12] to display i don't want xyz to be include into the page.. hope this makes sense.

last question, what is the most accurate way to count words, not letters.. right now i am using str_word_count() but the results aren't very accurate, sometimes it reports 19 words and other times 20.

any suggestions?

anyone?

okay thanks for nothing, didn't think the question was that hard.. or maybe i did not explain myself too well :o

anyhow, i solved both problems .. and made a very accurate word counter and it doesn't even count html! :)