Expand/Contract Text.

[seby]

I am looking for a bit of code for my site news that will allow me to expand/contract the text if there are more than lets say 500 characters, like a toggle [+] [-] or a link that shows something like "Click here to readmore, 100 more words," and it will toggle the hidden text when clicked. I am not sure if this would require a javascript or if it can be completely done in php.

any help is appreciated.

[planetsim]

Try hotscripts.com

[TodManPlaa]

Well, you could use PHP to ascertain it it was longer than 500 characters and to put the extra text in a variable that you'd then hand to javascript to display if required.

as a rough example:

$someText = "xyz";//where xyz is the result of a database call or whatever

$lenSomeText=strlen($someText);

if($lenSomeText>500){

//this would add another 100 characters - if you want it by words it would be more complex

$extraTextChunk=substr($someText,500,100);

}

Then you'd need a PHP if/then to look see if $extraTextChunk had a value, and if it did then write the javascript you need (my javascript isn't too sharp, so I won't try it) with the variable for the javascript to display being the PHP variable $extraTextChunk

Hope this helps

/s

[planetsim]

strlen and substr only count the letters not the words. So it can be used but it wont count the words only letters

[Weedpacket]

You could use substr_count() to see how many spaces there are in the string, and estimate the number of words from that (actually, preg_match() would probably be better and match occurrences of consecutive whitespace characters (\s+, in other words).

[seby]

well, i have no experience with javascript 🙁

can someone kindly put something together?