How to display first X characters?
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Last Post: August 26, 2008 (RSS)
By samsam92 - August 23, 2008
Hi there, I was wondering how I could display on the listing page the first X characters of a field such as "content" ?
For example: <?php echo $record['content'] ?> I want to show the first 100 characters.
Let me know please
Thanks a lot
For example: <?php echo $record['content'] ?> I want to show the first 100 characters.
Let me know please
Thanks a lot
Re: [samsam92] How to display first X characters?
By samsam92 - August 23, 2008
Found it!
Just add at the top of the page:
function textLimit($string, $length, $replacer = '...')
{
if(strlen($string) > $length)
return (preg_match('/^(.*)\W.*$/', substr($string, 0, $length+1), $matches) ? $matches[1] : substr($string, 0, $length)) . $replacer;
return $string;
}
and then where you want to display your content:
<?php echo textLimit($record['content'], 20) ?>
Just add at the top of the page:
function textLimit($string, $length, $replacer = '...')
{
if(strlen($string) > $length)
return (preg_match('/^(.*)\W.*$/', substr($string, 0, $length+1), $matches) ? $matches[1] : substr($string, 0, $length)) . $replacer;
return $string;
}
and then where you want to display your content:
<?php echo textLimit($record['content'], 20) ?>
Re: [samsam92] How to display first X characters?
By Jake - August 24, 2008
Hi samsam92,
Thanks for posting this! It could definitely come in handy for some other users. [:)]
Thanks for posting this! It could definitely come in handy for some other users. [:)]
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Re: [samsam92] How to display first X characters?
By zip222 - August 26, 2008
Awesome! That is super useful.