Hi, just one correction to Kobus' code:
function myTruncate ($verylongstring, $length) {
if (strlen($verylongstring) > $length) {
$shorterstring = substr($verylongstring,0,$length-1) . "...";
} else {
$shorterstring = $verylongstring;
}
return $shorterstring;
}
He was missing a "{", otherwise it was fine.
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Ben O'Neill
"Kobus Myburgh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have done a similar thing that worked reasonably well in Visual Basic
(however, included is a PHP snippet which might do the trick - I am not a
PHP pro).
write a small PHP function to select only a part of the string, say the
first 15 characters, and append "..." to the string, for example,
thisisoneveryveryveryveryverylongword!!!!
will become:
thisisoneveryver...
This is standard PHP string manipulation, which might look something like
this:
function myTruncate ($verylongstring, $length) {
if (strlen($verylongstring) > $length) {
$shorterstring = substr($verylongstring,0,$length-1) . "...";
}
else
$shorterstring = $verylongstring;
}
return $shorterstring;
}
(This is untested, but should work...).
You can then call this in your table cell as follows:
<td>print myTruncate("thisisoneveryveryveryveryverylongword!!!!", 15);</td>
Hope this helps :)
Regards,
Kobus
>>> "Bobo Wieland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/29/2003 12:37:02 PM >>>
When using dynamic content, like PHP interacting with MySQL it is easier to
use tables then anything else. But tables will get you into trouble! If
someone enters a really long word the tablecell will expand so that the
hwole word will be shown.
Is there some way I can prevent this? With html, php or css? I've tried
style='overflow:hidden' but it didn't work...
.bobo
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