Laravel - how to organize text preview for posts?

Question

Laravel

I am learning Laravel and practicing along the way by developing a blog. There was a problem: how to organize a text preview for a post? Is it possible using Laravel to limit the number of returned characters of a field of type text in the mysql database?

Answer 1

https://www.google.com.ua/search?q=laravel+truncat...

Answer 2

php.net/mb_substr

Answer 3

It is convenient to use the helper for previews of blog articles:
Str::words($text, 20); - will return the first 20 words of the text