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Re: [PHP-WIN] Tables (might be OT) From: Ben O'Neill (boneill <email protected>)
Date: 03/29/03

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" <ITBJDM <email protected>> wrote in message
news:se859f2b.066 <email protected>
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" <dev <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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