Partial Display

[alsaffar]

Hi everybody,

How can I display only 50 characters of a DB field content?

e.g.

Contents of Comments field:
"I LOVE PHP MORE THAN MY SELF, I LOVE PHP MORE THAN MY SELF, I LOVE PHP MORE THAN MY SELF, I LOVE PHP MORE THAN MY SELF, I LOVE PHP MORE THAN MY SELF, I LOVE PHP MORE THAN MY SELF, I LOVE PHP MORE THAN MY SELF, I LOVE PHP MORE THAN MY SELF"

If the length of the field is less or equal to 50 char I want to display all the content. But if the length of the field is greater than 50 I want to display 47 characters and then one space and to dots " .."

Please guys, I need a working module.

 

[vbkris]

$string="DB VALUE HERE";
if(strlen($string)>=50)
{
echo substr(%string,0,50);
}
else
echo $string;

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[DRJ478]

$string="DB VALUE HERE";
# 50 or less
if(strlen($string)<=50){
 echo $string;
} else {
 echo substr($string,0,47).'...';
}

This trims longer strings to 47 and adds the ellipsis.

You could compact the code into one line using the ternary operator:

echo strlen($string <=50)? $string : substr($string,0,47).'...';

 

[vbkris]

oops happens from not reading the post correctly...

DRJ is right...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull