Re: Splitting up long URLs

On Jul 1, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Nate Tallman wrote:

If you want to do it on the php side, I would do something like this: <a href="$fullURL">substr($fullURL, 0, 9)."..."</a> It would provide a valid link using the full url, but chop off everything after the 10th character and replace with a "...". Nate

I've seen some sites(/browsers?) do something similar to this - they show the first of the URL and some of the last. For example... <?php $url = "http://www.letshaveareallylongurl.com/somedirectory/".

       "somelocation/someplace/32j1580/ksaladfji/".
       "dji23adf/adfjadf/dja9Jkda.html";

$len = strlen ($url); $shortLen = 40; $longLen = 100; if ($len > ($shortLen + 10)) {

    if ($len > $longLen) {
        // Show first and last of the url
        $newUrl = substr ($url, 0, $shortLen) . '...' . substr ($url, -10);
    } else {
        // Only show first
        $newUrl = substr ($url, 0, $shortLen+7) . '...';
    }

} else { $newUrl = $url; } echo "<a href=\"$url\">$newUrl</a>"; ?> This output would be: http://www.letshaveareallylongurl.com/so...9Jkda.html Of course, you can change the lengths around to suit your needs. Just another way to skin the cat. ~Philip

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Boyd, Todd M. <tmboyd1@ccis.edu> wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Brian Dunning [mailto:brian@briandunning.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:27 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Splitting up long URLs I have a web page that lists "most recent comments" in a left margin. Sometimes people post long URLs, or even just really really long words, that force that margin to display way too wide, screwing up the page layout. Is there a way to make sure URLs or other text in a string gets split up so this doesn't happen? If there's a CSS solution that's better than a PHP solution I'll take that too. :-)

STFW: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#white-space ...doesn't say much in the article about whether or not it will break up "words" rather than lines, but it's worth a shot. Todd Boyd Web Programmer