Max Characters Is X?

Amezis

Dec 19 2005, 01:45 PM

I am currently making a code for my phpBB forum, where it will import the latest topics from a specific forum, and display it on the news section of my main page.

But the width of that news section is very tiny, so I want the code to limit the numbers of characters to 25.

So, let's say this is the full title:
"This is the title which is a little too long so it needs to be shortened."

This is what I want to show:
"This is the title which ..."

How can I do that?

rvalkass

Dec 19 2005, 02:00 PM

I haven't tested this, but it should work

CODE

$max_length = 25;
$title = "This is the title which is a little too long so it needs to be shortened.";
$title_length = strlen($title);
if ($title_length > $max_length)
{
$title = substr_replace($title, '...', $max_length);
}
echo $title;

It's pretty self explanitory. If you have any problems or it totally fails to work then feel free to ask!

Amezis

Dec 19 2005, 03:04 PM

Thanks alot, it worked perfectly!

But I have another question. If the title is too long, I want to add the title="fulltitlehere" attribute.

So, basically, my topic title is "This is the title which is a little too long so it needs to be shortened". It is then shortened to "This is the title which ...". But if it is shortened, I want to have the title="" attribute in the link too:

<a href="linktotopic" title="This is the title which is a little too long so it needs to be shortened">This is the title which ...</a>

I tried with this code (using your code to define $max_length):

CODE

if (($echo_text['post_subject']) > $max_length)
{
$titleattribute = ' title=\"' . ( $echo_text['post_subject'] ) . '\"'
}

$echo_text['post_subject'] is the complete topic title.

Hope you understand what I need

electriic ink

Dec 19 2005, 06:51 PM

Try:

CODE

if ($echo_text['post_subject'] > $max_length)
{

$titleattribute = ' title=\"' . $echo_text['post_subject'] . '\"';

}

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