Re: preview string with strlen PHP (help)
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:48:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: preview string with strlen PHP (help) | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Fri, March 23, 2007 10:18 am, Dwayne Heronimo wrote:
> function previewString($showcatvar) {
>
> $minitxt = $showcatvar;
> $len = strlen($minitxt);
>
> if ($len > 235)
> {
> $len = 235;
> }
> else
> {
> $len = $len;
> }
Take out this whole "else" block -- Assigning a variable to itself is
just silly.
> $newstring = substr($minitxt,0,$len);
>
> $previewtext = $newstring;
>
> $previewtext = $whowcatvar;
You need to RETURN some value here, for the function to give back the
"answer" so that your echo below has something to print out.
http://php.net/return
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