Re: Re: [PHP-WIN] Tables (might be OT)

Yeah - I use the code below, which I made to limit title length for news stories. The main advantage is it limits to specified width, but then *backtracks* to the last whitespace before that in the string, so you get whole words output followed by '...' :-) =============================================== // Title width limiter $titlelimit=50; // Number of characters to allow in a news title subsection (narrow column)

                if (strlen($row->newstitle)<$titlelimit) {
                        $secvars["news_title"]=htmlspecialchars($row->newstitle);
                } else {
                        $limitedstring=substr($row->newstitle,0,$titlelimit);
                        $lastspace=strrpos($limitedstring," ");
                        if ($lastspace===false || $lastspace==$titlelimit) {
// Theres no space to chop string on, or its at the last position : just limit string to substring
                                $secvars["news_title"]=htmlspecialchars($limitedstring)."&nbsp;...";
                        } else {
// Found a space near end of the string, back off to last space found and add ellipsis
                                $secvars["news_title"]=htmlspecialchars(substr($limitedstring,0,$lastspace))."&nbsp;...";
                        }
                }

// End title width limiter ================================== Hope that's (obvious !) , Regards, Neil Smith. At 03:03 30/03/2003 +0000, you wrote:

Message-Id: <se859f2b.066@groupwise.puk.ac.za> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:27:00 +0200 From: "Kobus Myburgh" <ITBJDM@puknet.puk.ac.za> To: <dev@elstudion.com> Cc: <php-windows@lists.php.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Tables (might be OT) Hi, I have done a similar thing that worked reasonably well in Visual Basic (however, included is a PHP snippet which might do the trick - I am not a PHP pro). write a small PHP function to select only a part of the string, say the first 15 characters, and append "..." to the string, for example,

     thisisoneveryveryveryveryverylongword!!!!

will become:

     thisisoneveryver...

This is standard PHP string manipulation, which might look something like this:

    function myTruncate ($verylongstring, $length) {
        if (strlen($verylongstring) > $length) {
            $shorterstring = substr($verylongstring,0,$length-1) . "...";
        }
        else
            $shorterstring = $verylongstring;
        }
        return $shorterstring;
    }