limit characters displayed
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Last Post: March 7, 2011 (RSS)
By s2smedia - July 26, 2010
<div id="reviews"><img src="images/reviews_header.jpg" width="217" height="27" alt="Customer Reviews" />
<table width="217" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<?php foreach ($customer_reviewsRecords as $record): ?>
<tr>
<td width="65" align="left" valign="top" style="padding:10px 15px 10px 0px"><img src="images/kixxlogo.gif" width="50" height="32" alt="Kixx" /></td>
<td width="152" align="left" valign="top" style="padding:10px 0px 10px 0px"><div class="white_caps"><?php echo $record['name'] ?></div>
<div class="grey_caps">THIS IS WHAT I NEED TO LIMIT-><?php echo $record['title'] ?></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px 8px 10px 8px"><div class="sm_whiteitalics"><?php echo $record['review'] ?></div></td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach ?>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center" valign="top"><a href="customerreviews.php"><img src="images/view_more.jpg" alt="View More" width="200" height="20" border="0" /></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Re: [s2smedia] limit characters displayed
By Jason - July 26, 2010
Take a look at this post:
http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=77525#77525
Give this a try. If you run into any issues, just let me know.
Hope this helps.
Jason Sauchuk - Project Manager
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Re: [Jason] limit characters displayed
By sublmnl - February 26, 2011 - edited: February 27, 2011
I have talked to Jerry about this too.
I have a limit character-count on field inside a ForEach loop of records. (only one field in the loop needs the limit char)
Weird thing about it is any entry shorter than the number I have chosen in the function gets displayed but anything more than that number, only the first 3 characters of the entry gets displayed with the added ellipses.
Specifically I'm using website addresses in my records and am chopping them down to fit a specific width. (don't worry the link still has the full address [;)] )
I have tested this on the basic pages that the code generator spits out so I know its not any other special code on my page.
I changed the number in the function a few times and counted the resulting 'cutoffs' and came to the above conclusion.
Now maybe I am missing something or is this the desired result???
I thought that the letters would count until the function got its max, take away three letters and then add 3 dots (ellipses) to finish.
If this is not the case - someone wake me up or better yet provide some code that actually does this the right way similar to the max words counter that I'v borrowed from here. Thanks.
Thanks.
[sly]
Re: [sublmnl] limit characters displayed
By sublmnl - February 28, 2011
Let's say it has a limit of 12. Anything 11 and under displays fully.
Anything 12 and over chars - only displays the first 3 chars plus
ellipses.
Gkornbluth and I have been discussing this and believe the issue is the web url is hacking up the Regex.
So when it finds a "/" or a "." thats what makes it hault and show the first three characters. (duh) because the first three chracters of most URL's are 'www' then the "."
So may I ask for a hand on this one to accomodate URL's in the text limiter function?
Thanks in advance.
[cool]
Re: [sublmnl] limit characters displayed
<?PHP function textLimit($string, $length, $replacer = '...')
{
if(strlen($string) > $length)
return (preg_match('/^(.*)\W.*$/', substr($string, 0, $length+1), $matches)
? $matches[1] : substr($string, 0, $length)) . $replacer;
return $string;
}
?>And
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Re: [gkornbluth] limit characters displayed
By sublmnl - March 6, 2011 - edited: March 6, 2011
He put the same rules in hist regex tester, then put in a web address, with 'www.' and without as well as with the 'http://' - they all passed the test.
So it must be the other half of the function true|false.
I don't know how to write this so I am looking for help to solve this issue.
Anyone have any ideas on why when I put in a web address in the field, that the text limiter cuts it at the dot?
Re: [sublmnl] limit characters displayed
By Jason - March 7, 2011
In order to do this, we'll need to create a custom function that will go beyond what we can handle in support. If you'd like us to look into doing this for you, please send and email to consulting@interactivetools.com and we can go over some options with you.
Hope this helps.
Jason Sauchuk - Project Manager
interactivetools.com
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