PHP help

[grantwgrantw is verified member.]

Can any PHP geniuses help me out here, here is what I want to do:

if length of $string > 50 then $string = first 50 characters + "....."


Thanking you kindly

Grant

 

[Jeewhizz]

$string = (strlen($string)>50) ? substr($string,0,50).'…' : $string;

Jee

 

[mishmash]

If you're creating an excerpt then that'll sometimes cut you off in the middle of words.

You can avoid this by trimming the output of the above and removing anything between the last word boundary and the end of the string.

$string = preg_replace('/\b.*$/', '', $string);

Even smarter excerpts can be created by looking for whole sentences. Though with only 50 characters you probably won't get many of them.

 

[grantwgrantw is verified member.]

Thanks for the assistance chaps, very helpful and much appreciated.

Grant