2 questions on limiting the amount of text displayed

[ferret219]

Hello there, I have a couple of questions and would appreciate any help.

 

1)

I have a basic news system running but on the list news items page, I would like to display a shortened version of the main body of the news item. i.e. if the text is over 150 characters then display a "(...More)" link at the end to the full item.

 

2)

When displaying the body text of the news items, I am using tables but if the body has a really long line of text, it extends the table. I would like to force a new line when the text reaches the edge of the table.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Chris

[Caesar]

1. substr()

 

2. Why not define the width of your table in your CSS, and avoid running your string/text through more PHP functions?

[ferret219]

Thanks for the quick reply. Just another quick one, when the are more than 10 items on the page, how do I then display the next 10 on another page.

 

Thanks again,

 

Chris

[rcorlew]

You could limit the string to a set number of characters like this:

 

<?php

$string = "My text from whatever source":

$str= substr($string, 10); //The number limits your str to that many characters including spaces

echo "$str";

?>

[GingerRobot]

Thanks for the quick reply. Just another quick one, when the are more than 10 items on the page, how do I then display the next 10 on another page.

 

Thanks again,

 

Chris

 

It's called pagination. Google for it and you'll find plenty of tutorials.