Cut text off after a certain length

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:43 pm

Alright I am pulling some text from the db, but I don't want it to be too long.

So here is what I got

Code:




<strong>&middot;</strong>&nbsp;<b>(<a href=\"modules.php?name=$module_name&op=view&eid=$eid\">$title</a>)</b>$text

$text being my variable.

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:53 pm

answered my own question with a little research. Anyway for others

Code:

$home_length = '25';


$home_text = cut_word($hometext, $home_length);

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:31 pm

Where did you find this cut_word function? I don't see it in my PHP manual. I guess you could write a function to do this but why?

$home_text = substr($text, 0, 25);

will do it.

Or to eliminate a couple steps:

Code:




<strong>&middot;</strong>&nbsp;<b>(<a href=\"modules.php?name=$module_name&op=view&eid=$eid\">$title</a>)</b>substr($text, 0, 25);

Gotta save 3 nanoseconds with that and a couple bytes of memory.

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:33 pm

thats a much better way thanks for the snappy reply.

Here's another off topic question if the date pulled from db is formated like so.

yyyy/mm/dd

How can I change to

mm/dd/yyyy

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:42 pm

$startDate = date('M d, Y', strtotime($date));

Yes I plan to try to answer all my own ?'s and then post my results! Smile

Until I learn I should look before I ask. Thanks for all that kelly

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:08 am

Quote:

Until I learn I should look before I ask

I have definitely found that this helps me to learn it better... If I don't first try to figure it out on my own, I will not learn as much and it won't "stick" in my mind.

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:56 am

Basically the php.net manual lists every function and how they can be used. It takes a little to figure out which function to use, but trust me, its there

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:42 pm

Your right montego, giving it a good go on my own was much more valuable.

Thanks again