Hi everyone,
I am just curious what php method would be best to perform the following:
$url="http://www.myfavoritewebsite.com?selected=dogfood&turtle=1&waterfall=2&x=22";
if (strlen($url)>=35)
{
from character 35, chop off all but the last 3 characters, and replace them with "..."
so the result would be something like
http://www.myfavoritewebsite.com?se...=22
}
how would one recommend I do this exactly?
thanks
-patrick
$url = substr($url, 0, 35).'...';And substr($url,-3) on the end of that for the "last three characters".
But you'll want to check that the length of the string is >38, not >=35. Otherwise weirdness will happen for strings with lengths of 35, 36, 37 or 38. Or look at strings of length >35 and shorten them to length 32 before adding the dots etc.
Then again, a call to the obscurely-named [man]substr_replace[/man] could do the job.
