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Re: use of substring in php [message #174593 is a reply to message #174592]

Mon, 20 June 2011 23:04

Denis McMahon
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:19:31 -0700, Co wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I want to cut down the name of the user to 10 characters so it will fit
> to the picture of the user.
> At this moment I use $firstnameCut = substr($firstname, 0, 10); However
> sometimes the name is like:
>
> Johannes Paul.
> with my code it will show: Johannes P
>
> How can I change this so if the second or third name doesn't fit within
> the 10 characters
> it will not be shown at all?

a) Count back from the end of the string to find the location of the last
space, and truncate the string to that point.

b) split the name string into an array, and add bits of the string
together with spaces until the next added bit would exceed your maximum
length.

There may be other ways.

Rgds

Denis McMahon

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