Well, if your stories are plain text data, you need to use TextHelper
(http://api.cakephp.org/1.2/class_text_helper.html) in your view. The
ticket you posted is a patch for making excerpts of html data.
Toon Gorissen wrote:
> I'm using the following code in my stories_controller:
>
> function index(){
> $stories = $this->Story->findAll(null, array('id', 'plot', 'author',
> 'created'), 'created DESC');
> $stories_array = array();
> foreach($stories as $story){
> $story_id = $story['Story']['id'];
> $stories_array[$story_id] = $this->RfRating-
> >getRatingInfo($story_id, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
> }
> //$this->set('stories', $this->Story->findAll(null, array('id',
> 'plot', 'author', 'created'), 'created DESC'));
> $this->set('stories', $stories);
> $this->set('ratingInfo', $stories_array);
> }
>
> Now I would like to truncate (or make an excerpt of) the plot
> variable. I've read a ticket on makings exerpts (https://
> trac.cakephp.org/ticket/2306), but I don't quite understand how to
> implement it.
>
> Could someone help me? Thanks!
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