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Re: use of substring in php [message #174600 is a reply to message #174594]

Tue, 21 June 2011 12:36

Allodoxaphobia
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:40:40 -0400, Bill B wrote:
> On 6/20/2011 5:19 PM, Co wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> This is not a PHP answer per se. Give some though to using the first X
> characters from the first name and the first Y characters from the last
> name. It may resolve some of your dilemma.

> It has a favorable side
> effect of producing a decently unique set of characters (most of the time).

And, an 'interesting' side effect of sometimes producing fairly
vulgar character strings...

Jonesy

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		use of substring in php By: Co on Mon, 20 June 2011 21:19
		Re: use of substring in php By: Denis McMahon on Mon, 20 June 2011 23:04
		Re: use of substring in php By: me on Tue, 21 June 2011 00:40
		Re: use of substring in php By: Allodoxaphobia on Tue, 21 June 2011 12:36
		Re: use of substring in php By: dougatmilmacdotcom on Tue, 21 June 2011 00:41
		Re: use of substring in php By: bobmct on Tue, 21 June 2011 01:16
		Re: use of substring in php By: Erwin Moller on Tue, 21 June 2011 09:04

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