a small question about PHP

i need some help, im a real noob, i want to show only 30 words and then add
..... at the end (so when more then 30 words it wil be cut of with....)

my problem is that i dont know how to put this code:

if(strlen($source) > 30) $message = str_pad($source, 30, "...", STR_PAD_RIGHT);

into this table:

<td width="279" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#BDBDBD">

<p class="Description"><?php echo $row_Animation['description']; ?></p>

</td>

try this:

<td width="279" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#BDBDBD">
<p class="Description"><?php echo
(strlen($row_Animation['description']) > 30) ?
substr($row_Animation['description'], 0, 30)."..." :
$row_Animation['description']; ?></p>
</td>

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rG]Courage-D- wrote:

i need some help, im a real noob, i want to show only 30 words and then add
.... at the end (so when more then 30 words it wil be cut of with....)

my problem is that i dont know how to put this code:

if(strlen($source) > 30) $message = str_pad($source, 30, "...", STR_PAD_RIGHT);

into this table:

td width="279" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#BDBDBD"

p class="Description"><?php echo $row_Animation['description']; ?></p

/td

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:54:53 +0000 (UTC), "rG]Courage-D-"
<webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

i need some help, im a real noob, i want to show only 30 words and then add
.... at the end (so when more then 30 words it wil be cut of with....)

my problem is that i dont know how to put this code:

if(strlen($source) > 30) $message = str_pad($source, 30, "...", STR_PAD_RIGHT);

Do you want 30 words, or 30 characters? If, as your code above suggests,
you want 30 characters, then Martin's code will do that for you. If, on
the other hand, you want 30 words, like your question suggests, try it
this way:

<?php
$s=$row_Animation['description'];
$a=explode(" ",$s);
if (count($a)>30){
$a=array_slice($a,0,30);
$s=join($a, " ")."...";
}
?>

td width="279" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#BDBDBD"
p class="Description"><?php echo $s; ?></p
/td

Gary

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
try this:

<td width="279" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#BDBDBD">
<p class="Description"><?php echo
(strlen($row_Animation['description']) > 30) ?
substr($row_Animation['description'], 0, 30)."..." :
$row_Animation['description']; ?></p>
</td>

the best place to ask php advice is #php on EFNet, you can pretty much
guarantee that there'll be someone who can help you in there with anything


rG]Courage-D- wrote:

i need some help, im a real noob, i want to show only 30 words and then add
.... at the end (so when more then 30 words it wil be cut of with....)

my problem is that i dont know how to put this code:

if(strlen($source) > 30) $message = str_pad($source, 30, "...",
STR_PAD_RIGHT);

into this table:

td width="279" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#BDBDBD"

p class="Description"><?php echo $row_Animation['description']; ?></p

/td

Thanks, a lot. that was the awnser