Limit String Length

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I m looking for a way to limit a string in php and add on     at the end if the string was too long

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value   str limit  This string is really really long    7       This st

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You can use something similar to the below   if  strlen  str   gt  10      str   substr  str  0  7

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Do a little homework with the php online manual s string functions  You ll want to use strlen in a comparison setting  substr to cut it if you need to  and the concatenation operator with       or   amp hellip

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2nd argument is where to start string and 3rd argument how many characters you need to show    title    This is for testing string for get limit of string This is for testing string for get limit of string This is for testing string for get limit of string This is for testing string for get limit of string       echo substr  title 0 50

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In another way to limit a string in php and add on readmore text or like       using below code  if  strlen preg replace    https             string    gt  30         echo substr preg replace    https             string   0  35    amp hellip

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You can use the wordwrap   function then explode on newline and take the first part  if you don t want to split words    str    Stack Overflow is as frictionless and painless to use as we could make it     str   wordwrap  str  28    str   explode   n    str    str    str 0             Source  https   stackoverflow com a 1104329 1060423  If you don t care about splitting words  then simply use the php substr function   echo substr  str  0  28

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res   explode  quot  n quot  wordwrap  12345678910   8   quot     n quot  true   0        res will be     quot 12345678    quot

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In Laravel  there is a string util function for this  and it is implemented this way   public static function limit  value   limit   100   end                if  mb strwidth  value   UTF-8    lt    limit            return  value             return rtrim mb strimwidth  value  0   limit       UTF-8     end

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From php 4 0 6   there is a function for the exact same thing   function mb strimwidth can be used for your requirement    lt  php echo mb strimwidth  Hello World   0  10            Hello W      gt    It does have more options though here is the documentation for this mb strimwidth

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To truncate a string provided by the maximum limit without breaking a word use this          truncate a string provided by the maximum limit without breaking a word     param string  str     param integer  maxlen     return string     public static function truncateStringWords  str   maxlen   string       if  strlen  str   lt    maxlen  return  str        newstr   substr  str  0   maxlen       if  substr  newstr  -1  1           newstr   substr  newstr  0  strrpos  newstr              return  newstr

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