Re: seems easy...
| From: | liljim | Date: | Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:19:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: seems easy... | ||
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Hi Justin,
$string = substr($string, 0, 5000) . ".... text too long.";
?
http://www.php.net/substr
James
"Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> wrote in message
news:3C4F8EAC.DAC492F9@indent.com.au...
> Hi,
>
> Really simple, but can't see which funtion to use in the manual.
>
> I want to take a user-inputted string $text, and IF it's length is more
> than $limit, trim it to the limited length, and then tack on some kind
> of "... text cut (too long)" thing on the end.
>
> I'm only missing one bit (line4):
>
> 1 $limit = "5000";
> 2 if(strlen($text) > $limit)
> 3 {
> 4 <cut $text down to $limit length>
> 5 $text .= "...sorry, text was too long";
> 6 }
>
>
> Or is it hard than that?
>
>
> Justin French