chopstring function / limited characters

[vinny199]

Hi,

I am having the following problem:

In a repeat region table, that displays all the records from the database table, I want the [text] row to only display the first 100 characters, and only when user goes to detailed page he gets to see the full text.

I have used the following code found on this forum:

		  <?php 
					  $text =  $row_rsevents['text'];
					  $len = 100;
					  function chopstring($text,$len,$breaker = " ") {

$vertext = strrchr(substr("$text",0,$len),"$breaker");
$mylen = strlen ($vertext);
$mylen = $len-$mylen;
$newtext = substr($text,0,$mylen);
return $newtext;
}
?>
</strong><?php echo chopstring($text,$len,$breaker = " "); ?><br> </td>
</tr>

That works a treat, exept that it only works in the first displayed record, but all the other records of the repeated region give the following error message:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare chopstring() (previously declared in /home_new/home/alfredo/journo.com/www/admin/editevent.php:97) in /home_new/home/alfredo/journo.com/www/admin/editevent.php on line 97

Do you know how can Iget this to work on every record?

Thanks,

Vinny

[bad76]

Hi,
Your error is to put the function inside the repeat region! Get the line between "function chopstring(){" and "}" out of the inner cycle. All will works.

bye bye

[vinny199]

yep,

thank you,

silly me...