Substr ?

[jurass1c]

I was wondering how to get "..." after the text i have cut using Substr. Here in an example of what i mean:

 

Say i wanted cut down something like a Movie name.

 

"Pulp Fiction" i use Substr to cut down the characters to only 7 so it would echo only "Pulp Fic" how would i go about adding "..." (3 dots) after Substr cuts off the name ?

 

so it would look like this "Pulp Fic..." - (notice the 3 dots after the name)

 

Its prob simple but i am yet to find a solution. any ideas ?

[foxsoup]

Just echo the '...' after the cut-down text, e.g.

 

<?php
$data = 'Pulp Fiction';
echo substr($data, 0, 7) . '...';
?>

[jurass1c]

Thanks man, i am still having a little trouble.  I did use this same method but what it does is echo all my results with an "..." after the substr even if the characters are under 7. so for example:

 

Say i have a 3 names in my database (Orange, Apple, Strawberry) under the field "Fruit", say  i want to limit the characters to "5" i use substr like above:

 

". substr($row['fruit'], 0, 5).'...' ."

 

It will work perfect for both "Orange and Strawberry" but when it comes to "Apple" (which is 5 characters) it will echo the "..." after it when it does not need to. Any idea's ?

 

Thanks.

 

[ldb358]

try:

<?php
$data = 'Pulp Fiction';
$out = substr($data, 0, 7);
if(strlen($data > 7){
$out .= '...';
}
echo $out;
?>

[marcus]

<?php
$r = array('Orange','Strawberry','Apple');

foreach($r AS $s){
    echo substr(wordwrap($s,5,'...',true),0, . "<br>\n";
}
?>

 

Results:

 

Orang...
Straw...
Apple