How to Implement a PHP Read Time Estimate to Show in Blog Article Pages - PHP Read Time package blog

About the PHP Read Time Package

The package PHP Read Time is one of the few PHP packages that was considered notable recently because it does something that is worth paying attention.

The basic purpose is: Estimate the time for a person to read an article

Here follows in more detail what it does:

This class can estimate the time for a person to read an article.

It takes the text of an article as a parameter and returns the length of time that it would take a person to read that text. It supports processing text in different languages and text that people should read from right to left.

The class can return the read time as an array with the count of the minutes and seconds or a string that expresses the read time in English.

It can also return the read time in other languages if the class gets the translations of the text messages used to format the read time string.

Conclusion

The PHP Read Time can be downloaded from download page or be installed using the PHP Composer tool following instructions in the Composer install instructions page.

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