Re: limiting characters

thnks its working here ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> To: "Michael P. Carel" <mikecarel@teamglac.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 8:09 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] limiting characters > Season to taste: > > <? > function chopper($string,$length=20, $suffix="...") { > $words = explode(' ',$string); > if(count($words) >= $length) { > $i = 0; > $new = ''; > while($i < $length) { > $new .= $words[$i].' '; > $i++; > } > if($suffix) { > $new .= $suffix; > } > return trim($new); > } else { > return $string; > } > } > > $foo = "This is my really long string"; > > // EXAMPLES > > // no change, since $foo is less than 20 chars (default) > echo chopper($foo); > > // echos 'This is my ...' -- uses default suffix > echo chopper($foo,3); > > // echos 'This is my [too long]' > echo chopper($foo,3,'[too long]'); > ?> > > > Justin French > > > > on 19/02/03 10:18 AM, Michael P. Carel (mikecarel@teamglac.com) wrote: > > > it would be better if it will be chopped by words and not by characters. Any > > idea how? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> > > To: "Michael P. Carel" <mikecarel@teamglac.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:26 AM > > Subject: Re: [PHP] limiting characters > > > > > >> Do you want it chopped at a certain number of words, or characters? > >> > >> Justin French > >> > >> > >> > >> on 19/02/03 10:00 AM, Michael P. Carel (mikecarel@teamglac.com) wrote: > >> > >>> Hi to all, > >>> > >>> How could i limit the character output that is being displayed in the > > html > >>> page. Is there a function or a php classes that perfectly support it? > >>> > >>> Example: > >>> > >>> $myoutput = "This is my sample output."; > >>> > >>> Required Output: > >>> > >>> This is my .... > >>> > >>> Any idea? Thanks in advance for the replies > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> mike > >>> > >>> > > > > --- > > [This E-mail scanned for viruses] > > > >