Displaying '...' after a certain amount of characters exceeded

joshd963

Ok.. sorry for asking so many questions lol 😃 ive been doing lots of googling... and i learnt this code from the PHP documentation.

$break = pathinfo($file); 
$b = $break['extension']; 
$f = wordwrap($file, 15, "<br>", true);
$c = explode(".", $file);
// this bit below is the new code.. i put the other bit for reference. 
$d = substr($c[0], 0, 5);
echo " '.$d.'.'.$b.' ";

So this works fine.. if i have a file name longer than 5 chars it will remove the other characters... but still display the file extension obviously..
But what i would like to do is.. if the substr has been performed.. i would like a COLOR="Red" [/COLOR] to be displayed before the file extension.. to sort of notify the user that this is not the full file name. Does anybody know how to do this? i figure its some sort of IF statement..
like IF(filelengthismorethan5) {
echo "$first5characters, (...), $extension";
else {
echo "$filename, $extenstion";
}

so you see what i mean? i think that is the correct logic as to how it would work.. im just not sure how to make it work 😕😕

Thankyou! im learning slowly :quiet:🙂

EDIT: i just modified it a little... so that i am not using explode()... now $c is..
$c = $break['filename'];
i did this because if a file was called for example image.2009.jpg then only the image bit would be picked up.

jgetner

here is some advice... first get the length of the string with string length functions after you get the length of the word compare the length to 5 if less or greater than.

after that have a conditional then if it is greater than 5 string replace the remaining characters to periods.

joshd963

thats a great idea :-) Cheers. ill get coding ;P .

joshd963

Fantastic! Thanks, it works like a charm.

$c = $break['filename'];
$d = substr($c, 0, 5);
$f = strlen($c);
	if($f > 5) {
echo "".$d."(...).".$b."";
} else {
echo "".$c.".".$b."";
}

I was just wondering if there is any way to shorten the code... as in..
i have a switch operator.. and im having to paste this into the bit of every switch.. would i be able to just write the code once and then replicate it with a placeholder sort of like ..

before the switch i have my code
and if i want it in the switch i just put $fred wherever i want the code to be called?