Truncate text when reach max chars allowed
Aug 08, 2009
Author: Dr_ViRuS
In this tutorial I will show you one simple method how to cut long texts.
This method is really simple.
Method parameters
- $text - text who we need to check
- $max_chars - maximum allowed length
- $end_chars – chars who will be added at end of text
<?php
function truncate_string( $text, $max_chars, $end_chars) {
$text_len = strlen($text);
$temp_text = '';
if ( $text_len > $max_chars) {
for ($i=0; $i < $max_chars; $i++ ) {
$temp_text .= $text[$i];
}
$temp_text .= $end_chars;
return $temp_text;
} else {
return $text;
}
}
?>
What do this method?
- get string length
- check if text is longer, if is longer create new text variable and return shorter text else return original text
<?php
function truncate_string( $text, $max_chars, $end_chars) {
$text_len = strlen($text);
$temp_text = '';
if ( $text_len > $max_chars) {
for ($i=0; $i < $max_chars; $i++ ) {
$temp_text .= $text[$i];
}
$temp_text .= $end_chars;
return $temp_text;
} else {
return $text;
}
}
$text = "Pela PHP tutorials 2008";
echo truncate_string($text, 3, '...');
?>
Output is:
Pel...
Note: if you are using UTF-8 u will be have problem with strlen();try with mb_strlen ( string $str [, string $encoding ] ); orwith this strlen(utf8_decode($text)); The utf8_decode($text) will take care of converting the utf characters that have more than one byte in to one symbol and the strlen() will count those correctly as length 1.
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