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

Thanks to all of you for helping me. So far, the css-option - word-wrap:break-word; - is the best solution. But it's worthless since it doesn't work in Mozilla... To bad... =( The code (below and in previous mail) is great too, but doesn't work either. It is only _words_ that are too long that needs to be wraped, the whole sentence can be longer... Thanks! .bobo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Smith" <neil@fresh-toast.uklinux.net> To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 3:12 PM Subject: 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; > > } > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >