Reduce Displayed Text Length

[Dysan]

Hi,

I am currently displaying people's names on the screen, but some people's names are longer than others. How do I display only 6 characters of a person's name, then display three dots (...) at the end.

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM person");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
  echo $row['name'];
}

[stolzyboy]

http://docs.php.net/substr

<?php
$name = "stolzyboy";
$name = substr($name, 0, 6) . "...";
echo $name;
?>

[stijnm]

or ...

<?php 
$name = "someone"; 
if(strlen($name) > 6) $name = substr($name, 0, 6) . "..."; 
echo $name; 
?>

[bradgrafelman]

Or even shorter:

<?php 
$name = "someone"; 
$name = (strlen($name) > 9 ? substr($name, 0, 6) . "..."); 
echo $name; 
?>

I used "> 9" since 6 characters of $name plus "..." equals 9 characters displayed.

[Horizon88]

<?PHP
$name = "someone";
echo (strlen($name) > 9 ? substr($name, 0, 6) . "..." : $name);
?>

Works too.