Truncate string in Laravel blade templates

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Is there a truncate modifier for the blade templates in Laravel  pretty much like Smarty   I know I could just write out the actual php in the template but i m looking for something a little nicer to write  let s not get into the whole PHP is a templating engine debate    So for example i m looking for something like       myVariable truncate  10             I know I could use something like Twig via composer but I m hoping for built in functionality in Laravel itself   If not is it possible to create your own reusable modifiers like Smarty provides  I like the fact that Blade doesn   t overkill with all the syntax but I think truncate is a real handy function to have   I m using Laravel 4

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In Laravel 4  amp  5  up to 5 7   you can use str limit  which limits the number of characters in a string   While in Laravel 7 up  you can use the Str  limit helper     For Laravel  to Laravel 7     Illuminate Support Str  limit  post- gt title  20   end

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Laravel 6 Update    php  value    Artificial Intelligence    var   Str  limit  value   limit   15   end        print r  var    endphp   lt p class  card-text  gt    Illuminate Support Str  limit  value  7     lt  p gt   lt h2 class  main-head  gt     Str  limit  value  5      lt  h2 gt

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In Laravel 4  amp  5  up to 5 7   you can use str limit  which limits the number of characters in a string   While in Laravel 5 8 up  you can use the Str  limit helper     For Laravel 4 to Laravel 5 5    str limit  string   limit   150   end               For Laravel 5 5 upwards     Illuminate Support Str  limit  string  150   end             For more Laravel helper functions http   laravel com docs helpers strings

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You can set string limit as below example    lt td gt   str limit  biodata - gt description   limit   20   end            lt  td gt    It will display only the 20 letters including whitespaces and ends with       Example image

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This works on Laravel 5      strlen  post- gt content   gt  200   substr  post- gt content 0 200     post- gt content

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You can Set the namespace like        Illuminate Support Str  words  item- gt description  10

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To keep your code DRY  and if your content comes from your model you should adopt a slightly different approach  Edit your model like so  tested in L5 8     lt  php  namespace App   use Illuminate Database Eloquent Model  use Illuminate Support Str   class Comment extends Model       public function getShortDescriptionAttribute                 return Str  words  this- gt description  10                    gt    Then in your view         comment- gt short description

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For simple things like this I would prefer to make a helper - for example   create a helpers php file in your  app helpers php with following content    lt  php if    function exists  short string          function short string  str                 rest   substr  str  0  10               return  rest            Register the helper php at autoload in your composer json      autoload              files                  app helpers php                      psr-4                  App      app                       classmap                  database seeds                database factories                    After that you can use in your blade file for example      short string  whatever as text       You can use this simple function  then  globally in your app

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Edit  This answer is was posted during the Laravel 4 beta  when Str class did not exist  There is now a better way to do it in Laravel 4 - which is Dustin s answer below  I cannot delete this answer due to SO rules  it wont let me   Blade itself does not have that functionality   In Laravel 3 there was the Str class - which you could do      Str  limit  myVariable  10       At this stage I do not believe the Str class is in Laravel 4 - but here is a port of it that you can include in composer to add to your own project

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You can use sub str    substr  myVariable 10

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Update for Laravel 7    Fluent Strings i e a more fluent  object-oriented interface for working with string values  allowing you to chain multiple string operations together using a more readable syntax compared to traditional string operations    limit Example     truncated   Str  of  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog  - gt limit 20     Output  The quick brown fox      words Example     string   Str  of  Perfectly balanced  as all things should be   - gt words 3     gt  gt  gt       Output  Perfectly balanced  as  gt  gt  gt       Update for Laravel 6     You require this package to work all laravel   helpers composer require laravel helpers   For using helper in controller  don t forget to include use class as well  use Illuminate Support Str       Laravel 5 8 Update   This is for handling characters from the string        Str  limit  Lorem ipsum dolor   10                Output  Lorem ipsu        This is for handling words from the string        Str  words  Lorem ipsum dolor   2                Output  Lorem ipsum        Here is the latest helper documentation for handling string Laravel Helpers

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Laravel 4 has Str  limit which will truncate to the exact number of characters  and also Str  words which will truncate on word boundary   Check out    http   laravel com api 4 2 Illuminate Support Str html method limit

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