Limit Displayed Characters From Your Text

This php tutorial will help you that how will apply limit displaying characters form you message and not cut out your word.

Syntax

substr($message, start, length);

Example 1

{code type=codetype}

<?

$position=14; // Define here that how many character you want to display there.

$message="You are now joining over 2000 current";
$post = substr($message, 0, $position);

echo $post;
echo "...";

?>

This result shows 14 characters from your message

"Limit Display..."
{/code}

This is not good. We want to display "Limit Displayed Characters..." Let's solve this problem in example 2.

Example 2

1. Define how many characters you want to display.
2. Find what is the last character displaying.
3. If the last character displaying is not " " (space) then go to next character until we found it.
4. Display your message.

|---|--------------------- code --------------------|---|

{code type=codetype}

<?
$position=14; // Define here that how many character you want to display there.

$message="You are now joining over 2000 current";
$post = substr($message,$position,1); // Find what is the last character displaying. We find it by getting only last one character from your display message.

if($post !=" "){ // In this step, if last character is not " "(space) do this step.

// Find until we found that last character is " "(space)
// by $position+1 (14+1=15, 15+1=16 until we found " "(space) that mean character 20)
while($post !=" "){
$i=1;
$position=$position+$i;

$message="You are now joining over 2000 current";
$post = substr($message,$position,1);
}

}

$post = substr($message,0,$position); // Display your message here
echo $post;
echo "...";
?>

{/code}