Shorten Blogs

[SD-Syndicate]

Hi Everyone 🙂,

Ive had some great replies which have helped me enormously in the past and Im hoping someone can help me here.

Im trying to make blogs from a database shorten when ever it gets to a certain length.

So if the blogs or message was for example a game Instruction:

Example: Collect the spinning flowers to gain points. The longer you leave them the less points you recieve.

If I wanted it to only appear on 1 line How would I make it say:

Collect the spinning flowers to gain points. The longer you...

Cheers for any help provided 🙂

Syndicate.

[LordShryku]

[man]strlen[/man] to check it. [man]substr[/man] to shorten it.

[drawmack]

<?php
$string = "Collect the spinning flowers to gain points. The longer you leave them the less points you recieve."
$min_length = 57;

//don't cut strings that are already short enough.
if(strlen($string) > $min_length) {
    //don't cut strings in the middle of words.
    $cut_at = strpos($string,' ',$min_length);
    //don't cut the string if only the last word pushes it
    //over length.
    if($cut_at !== FALSE)
        //cut the string
        $string = substr($string,0,$cut_at) . "...";
} //end if
?>

[SD-Syndicate]

I`ll Have A Test With The Codes.

Much Appreciated And Will Tell You`s If All Went Well 🙂

[SD-Syndicate]

Excellent Work Drawmack For That Code, It Worked A Treat 🙂