Silly question but how can i make a function which only shows X amount of chars and then has ....


Actual text:

The Cat sat on the mat.

New text limited to 10 chars:

The Cat sa...

how can i make this?

PHP Code:

$string = 'The Cat sat on the mat.';

$NewString = substr($string , 0, 10).'...'; 


Truncating a word always looks a bit sloppy.

Best set a maximum character length then find last space so you always have a full word.

PHP Code:

 <?php 
$cutpos    =    8; // maximum  length of character string
$text    =    'the cat sat on the mat'; 
$output    =    substr($text,0,$cutpos);  //  find  position  of  last  space  in  extract
$lastSpace  =  strrpos($output,' '); //  use  $lastSpace  to  set  length  of  new extract  and  add  ...
echo  substr($output,  0,  $lastSpace)."..."; ?>

Thanks sorry took so long to reply

For anyone else who is interested.

turned it into a nice function, which also checks if the string is less than the amount of chars so it dont add ... to short strings

(in the situation im using it its in a loop getting the strinfs from a database so it helps )

PHP Code:

<?php
 
function shorten_txt($text, $cutpos)
  {
 # $cutpos    =    8; // maximum  length of character string
 # $text    =    'the cat sat on the mat'; 
      if(strlen($text) > $cutpos)
   {
   $output    =    substr($text,0,$cutpos);  //  find  position  of  last  space  in  extract
   $lastSpace  =  strrpos($output,' '); //  use  $lastSpace  to  set  length  of  new extract  and  add  ...
   return  substr($output,  0,  $lastSpace)."...";
   }
   else {
   return $text;
   }
        }
?>