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List:       php-windows
Subject:    Re: Re: [PHP-WIN] Tables (might be OT)
From:       "Bobo Wieland" <dev () elstudion ! com>
Date:       2003-03-30 13:46:06
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Thanks to all of you for helping me.

So far, the css-option - word-wrap:break-word; - is the best solution. But
it's worthless since it doesn't work in Mozilla... To bad... =(

The code (below and in previous mail) is great too, but doesn't work either.
It is only _words_ that are too long that needs to be wraped, the whole
sentence can be longer...


Thanks!


.bobo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Smith" <neil@fresh-toast.uklinux.net>
To: <php-windows@lists.php.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [PHP-WIN] Tables (might be OT)


> Yeah - I use the code below, which I made to limit title length for news
> stories. The main advantage is it limits to specified width, but then
> *backtracks* to the last whitespace before that in the string, so you get
> whole words output followed by '...'   :-)
>
>
> ===============================================
>
> // Title width limiter
>
> $titlelimit=50; // Number of characters to allow in a news title
subsection
> (narrow column)
>
>                  if (strlen($row->newstitle)<$titlelimit) {
>
$secvars["news_title"]=htmlspecialchars($row->newstitle);
>                  } else {
>
$limitedstring=substr($row->newstitle,0,$titlelimit);
>                          $lastspace=strrpos($limitedstring," ");
>                          if ($lastspace===false ||
$lastspace==$titlelimit) {
> // Theres no space to chop string on, or its at the last position : just
> limit string to substring
>
$secvars["news_title"]=htmlspecialchars($limitedstring)."&nbsp;...";
>                          } else {
> // Found a space near end of the string, back off to last space found and
> add ellipsis
>
$secvars["news_title"]=htmlspecialchars(substr($limitedstring,0,$lastspace))
."&nbsp;...";
>                          }
>                  }
> // End title width limiter
>
>
> ==================================
> Hope that's (obvious !) , Regards,
> Neil Smith.
>
> At 03:03 30/03/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >Message-Id: <se859f2b.066@groupwise.puk.ac.za>
> >Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:27:00 +0200
> >From: "Kobus Myburgh" <ITBJDM@puknet.puk.ac.za>
> >To: <dev@elstudion.com>
> >Cc: <php-windows@lists.php.net>
> >Mime-Version: 1.0
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> >Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Tables (might be OT)
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have done a similar thing that worked reasonably well in Visual Basic
> >(however, included is a PHP snippet which might do the trick - I am not a
> >PHP pro).
> >
> >write a small PHP function to select only a part of the string, say the
> >first 15 characters, and append "..." to the string, for example,
> >
> >      thisisoneveryveryveryveryverylongword!!!!
> >
> >will become:
> >
> >      thisisoneveryver...
> >
> >This is standard PHP string manipulation, which might look something like
> >this:
> >
> >
> >     function myTruncate ($verylongstring, $length) {
> >         if (strlen($verylongstring) > $length) {
> >             $shorterstring = substr($verylongstring,0,$length-1) .
"...";
> >         }
> >         else
> >             $shorterstring = $verylongstring;
> >         }
> >         return $shorterstring;
> >     }
>
>
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