[SOLVED] display large field value

[isaac_cm]

Hello,

I need to know how to display large field value in a small place for example: the word "Red Agate Silver Bracelet" appear like this "Red Agate Sil..." and in the hint display the full length

 

Note: I get the value from a database

 

please advice

 

Thanks

[dooper3]

This is what you do... Put this function at the top of the page:

 

function Shorten($words) {
//change this to whatever you want the length (in characters) to be...
$newlength=15;
$newwords=substr($words, 0, $newlength);
$newwords=$newwords."...";
return $newwords;
}

 

Then whenever you want to shorten a string of text, put call the function then display the link or whatever with the shortened text as $newwords, and the original string will still be $string or whatever variable it was in before...

 

Shorten($string);
<a href="http://this.link" title="$string">$newwords</a>

 

Haven't tested it but should work fine!

[isaac_cm]

thanks I did not figure that it would be so easy