note 54703 added to function.substr-replace

If your string is not long enough to meet what you specify in start and length then the replacement string is added towards the end of the string. I wanted to replace the end of the string with ... if the string was too long to display (for instance article preview on a website). The problem was that my string was sometimes not that long and it still added the replacement string. So I wrote a function to replace substr_replace in my website: function add_3dots($string,$repl,$start,$limit) { if(strlen($string) > $limit) { return substr_replace(strip_tags($string),$repl,$start,$limit); } else { return $string; }; }; I use strip_tags to strip out the HTML otherwise you might get a screwed up HTML (when a tags open in the string, but because you cut-off it doesn't) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-replace.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+54703 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54703&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54703&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54703&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54703&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54703&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54703&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+54703&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php