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Parvus · 01-13-2010, 09:08 PM

Do you mean like this ?

PHP Code:


			
<?

$str = "Yeah, but on my website, before I realized that converting quotes, etc, to entities was a bad idea, I already had a lot of stuff put into a database...Also, symbols like show up as question marks... and I don't really know how to fix that. In my four years of HTML experience, and two years of PHP experience, I've never been able to get character encoding to do what I want it to.";

$chars = "150";

function shortText($str, $chars)
{
if (strlen($str) > $chars)
    {
    $str = substr($str, 0, $chars);
    $str = $str . "<a href='/link-to-full-article.html'>...</a>";
    return $str;
    }
else
    {
return $str;
    }
}

echo shortText($str, $chars);

?>

So you can click on the 3 dots to go to the full page ?
or do you just mean echo($str); ?

01-13-2010, 09:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
Parvus The Wanderer Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 21 Thanks: 1	Do you mean like this ? PHP Code: <? $str = "Yeah, but on my website, before I realized that converting quotes, etc, to entities was a bad idea, I already had a lot of stuff put into a database...Also, symbols like show up as question marks... and I don't really know how to fix that. In my four years of HTML experience, and two years of PHP experience, I've never been able to get character encoding to do what I want it to."; $chars = "150"; function shortText($str, $chars) { if (strlen($str) > $chars) { $str = substr($str, 0, $chars); $str = $str . "<a href='/link-to-full-article.html'>...</a>"; return $str; } else { return $str; } } echo shortText($str, $chars); ?> So you can click on the 3 dots to go to the full page ? or do you just mean echo($str); ?