[RESOLVED] Limit search results

[stebut05]

Hi all,

I need to limit the number of characters on results returned. When a user searches for products using a search engine it returns the results of product names and product descriptions, but i want to limit the product description to about 100 characters then have a more details link. Hope that makes sense

I hope someone can help and thanks for any help, advice and suggestion given in advance.

Ste

[Jasp182]

If you just need to limit the number of chars displayed, you can use strlen() to determine the number of chars, and substr() to limit the display.

for example

if(strlen($product_description)>100)
{
     echo substr($product_description,100).'... <a href="[link]">read more...</a>';
}
else
{
     echo $product_description;
}

[maxpup979]

Also, depending on the DB you are using, there is probably a substr function built in.

[stebut05]

Jasp182 wrote:

If you just need to limit the number of chars displayed, you can use strlen() to determine the number of chars, and substr() to limit the display.

for example

if(strlen($product_description)>100)
{
     echo substr($product_description,100).'... <a href="[link]">read more...</a>';
}
else
{
     echo $product_description;
}

Hi thanks for your help, resolved. I did need to put 0, 100 to limit the results to the first 100 characters rather than the last 100 characters.

Thanks again for all your help!!