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Posted by Lόpher Cypher on 12/31/05 12:19
Geoff Berrow wrote:
> Message-ID: <1136022722.493964.17770@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> from
> Mavenos contained the following:
>
>> I mean if I have a 2 page content - just I want to display only 4 lines
>> having 200 letters then follows the content with "....." at the end of
>> short pera.
>>
>> Can anybody help in this regards,
>> Thanks in advance
>
> I wrote this function to do just that. It has the added feature that it
> truncates on a space rather than the middle of the word.
>
> $string is the long string to truncate
> $length is the maximum truncated length
> $url is the URL you should go to to see the whole paragraph
>
> <?php
> function truncate($string,$length,$url){
> $string=trim($string);
> if(strlen($string)>$length){
> $string=substr($string,0,$length);
> $n=0;
> while(substr($string,-1)!=chr(32)){
> $n++;
> $string=substr($string,0,$length-$n);
> }
> $string=trim($string)."... <a href='$url'><em>more</em></a>";
> }
> return $string;
> }
>
> //example usage
> echo truncate("the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
> dog",35,"anyurl");
> ?>
>
Shorter :)
function trancate($string,$length) {
$string = substr(trim($string),0,$length);
$string = substr($string,0,strrpos(trim($string)," "));
return "$string...";
}
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