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Shorten long sentences and end the summary with '...'?
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:35 pm
by 9ggadmin
I have a script that posts forum topics into a smaller area on the front page of 9thgategames.com .
Some of the forum posts though are too large to fit in the area I want them in.
How can I get a limited amount of characters to show and then end the summary with '...'?

Re: Shorten long sentences and end the summary with '...'?
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:46 pm
by John Cartwright
Two ways:
The simplest way is to do a $text = substr($text, 0, 200) .' ... '
Although you will find this will capture the first 200 characters, however sometime this will produce chopped up words. Instead, a more elegant solution:
EDIT | If it's coming from your database, indeed perform the substr on the database side.
Re: Shorten long sentences and end the summary with '...'?
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:47 pm
by jimthunderbird
Re: Shorten long sentences and end the summary with '...'?
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:48 pm
by jimthunderbird
Also, if you are interested, read drupal's search module's source code, you will find some goodies.
Re: Shorten long sentences and end the summary with '...'?
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:50 pm
by 9ggadmin
Thank you guys.