Crop Content

CΛSTΞX · 01-13-2010, 06:37 PM

Hello, this snippet crops the content and puts "..." to the end. My question is, how can I get the rest of the content ?

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 . "...";

    return $str;

    }

else

    {

return $str;

    }

}



echo shortText($str, $chars);



?>

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); ?

CΛSTΞX · 01-13-2010, 09:58 PM

I just want to get the section which starts with "..." (script does this after 150 chars) and finishes at the end.

delayedinsanity · 01-14-2010, 07:38 PM

Well since the above code isn't worried about cropping at a space or punctuation, I won't worry either. :)

php Code:

$remainder = substr( $str, $chars );