<span="dropcap">first character only</span>

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Last Post: March 23, 2011   (RSS)

By rez - March 23, 2011 - edited: March 23, 2011

I see the max words script but have no idea where to start with this:

I simply want to wrap the first character in a text box entry to make a fancy dropcap.

<p><span="dropcap">H</span>ello world. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Nullam dignissim convallis est.</p>

Some help auto isolating the first character from 1 text box in an editor please? :)

Re: [rez] <span="dropcap">first character only</span>

By Jason - March 23, 2011

Hi,

You could try this function:

function wrapFirstCharacter($string){


$textArray = str_split($string);
$textArray[0] = "<span class='dropcap'>". $textArray[0]. "</span>";
$newText = join($textArray);

return $newText;
}

It will take in a string, and then put the span tags around the first character and return it. You can use it like this:

<?php echo wrapFirstCharacter($record['myTextBox']);?>

you just replace myTextBox with the name of the field you want to use.

Hope this helps
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