Line break in a forum

pederdin

I get a problem when people write too long topics in my forum. Therefor I would want PHP to check if the topic is longer than ie 20 letters. If it is I want it too write the first 15 letters and then (...) too show that more is written. Is that possible?

Anon

I have a solution but it will work abit different than the one you want..

It's an HTML code.

in the TOPIC field u'll find something like this :: <input type="text" name"topic" value="" size="16">

Notice that the "name" can be anything depending on the php code. now all you have to do is to add this between the brackets :: maxlength="20"

So the whole field code will look like this :: <input type="text" name="topic" value="" size="16" maxlength="20">

It will allow the visitor/submitter to write only 20 digits.

I hope this works.

Anon

Yep, you'd use the strlen() and substr() functions for that. Look 'em up.

khaine

try

<?
if ( strlen($string_in) > 15 )
{
$newstr=substr($string_in, 0, 15)."...";
}
else
{
$newstr=$string_in;
}
?>

the newstr variable will then hold the truncated string with ... on the end or the whole of the input string.

Mark.