Problems with if else :/

[marcfalk]

Hello , I need some help.

 

I can't figure out why this http://pastebin.com/m1b575c55 isn't working.

 

I need to add "..." after sentences there are 50 characters long. $name is plain text and will never include URL's etc.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Mchl]

How about this?

 

<?
$position=50;

$messageshort = $name;

if (strlen($messageshort) <= $position)
{ 
echo $messageshort;
} else {
echo substr($messageshort, 0, $position)."...";
}
?>

 

[marcfalk]

It just works. Thank you man, I appreciate

[Mchl]

Now try to find out, why the previous one was no good.

Hint:line 7

[marcfalk]

Now try to find out, why the previous one was no good.

Hint:line 7

 

hmm , if ($postshort != $position) doesn't contain $messageshort, which is quite essential since that's the text I'm trying to add "..." after? I mean, I missed an important factor in my if-statement.

[Mchl]

You probably wanted to check, if $postshort has 50 characters or more. Well, that's not the way to do it strlen should be used in such cases