note 122609 deleted from function.mb-strimwidth by salathe

Note Submitter: felixstar4 at gmail dot com ---- Note that the trimmarker removes characters from the end of the string to trim, so $hello = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, lorem ipsum'; $trimmarker = '......................'; echo mb_strimwidth($hello, 0, 20, $trimmarker); will only add the values of the trim marker, as the character number of $trimmarker is longer than the specified value to trim to, so it will return: ...................... It is therefore better to use this: mb_strimwidth($hello, 0, 20). $trimmarker; as the trimmarker won't remove characters of the string in order to make space for itself. It will return: Lorem ipsum dolor si......................