Limiting string display

[incarnate]

How do you do that thing where if a string is to long, it ends with "..." e.g. This text is to long > This text is t...

Thanks in advance

[planetsim]

Firstly you would have a set display of characters. Then using strlen you would get the maxlength of the string from there its a simple for loop

$string = 'this is my string';
$displayLength = 8;
$myNewString='';
for ($i=0$i<$displayLength;$i++) {
  $myNewString.=$string{$i};
}
//echos out "'this is "

[TheDefender]

You could also use the [man]substr()[/man] function...

$text = "This is the string we are going to use.";
$text = substr($text, 0, 10);
$text .= "...";
echo $text;

//  Outputs:   This is th...

There was a thread opened a few weeks ago that showed how to use the loop so it doesn't cut a word off (you'd have to search the forum, because I can't find it right now), but if you don't mind the words being cut off, then this is another option.