String limiter

[Goblo]

I'm creating something that places pictures in a kind of newsletter with the name of what is displayed on the picture under it. These names are received from a database. There are some names that are too large, so I wanted to create a limiter:

$limiter = substr($image_name, 0, 10) . "...";

$image_name is the name of picture received from the database.

Really simple, but that's why I am a newbie 😃

Now I hoped it would cut the name after 10 chars, but it does only show the first letter of it. I searched on the net but they said that this would work, so that's why I'm asking here.

Any solutions?

[laserlight]

The problem probably lies elsewhere. To convince yourself of this, run this script:

<?php
$image_name = "Goblo will go to blow a balloon";
$limiter = substr($image_name, 0, 10) . "...";
echo $limiter;

[NogDog]

Works for me:

php -r "$image_name='long name goes here'; echo substr($image_name, 0, 10).'...';"
long name ...

[bradgrafelman]

Note that you could likely have your DBMS do this for you as well; for example, see MySQL's SUBSTRING() function.