Display shorten title sentence

4 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: July 15, 2014   (RSS)

By esupport - July 15, 2014

Hi,

Our news title is a long sentence. It is no problem on news section.

How to display shorten title sentence.

For example:

On news section. The full title sentence is "The streets of Berlin turn black, red and gold as thousands of fans welcome Germany home."

How to display the shorten title sentence like "The streets of Berlin turn black, red and gold...(The three dots end of the title)" on Homepage?

Thanks!

Jac

-Jax H.

By claire - July 15, 2014

Try this:

echo substr($title, 0, 50) . '...';

This will show the first 50 characters of the title and then add a ... to the end of it.

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By esupport - July 15, 2014

Hi claire

Where to add it?

I tried 

<?php echo substr($title, 0, 50) . '...'; ?>

and

<?php echo htmlencode($title, 0, 50) . '...'; ?>

got error "Undefined variable"

-Jax H.