Jump to content
Larry Ullman's Book Forums

Search the Community

Showing results for tags 'substr'.

  • Search By Tags

    Type tags separated by commas.
  • Search By Author

Content Type


Forums

  • Single Editions
    • Modern Javascript: Develop and Design
    • The Yii Book
    • Effortless Flex 4 Development
    • Building a Web Site with Ajax: Visual QuickProject
    • Ruby: Visual QuickStart Guide
    • C++ Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide
    • C Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide
    • Adobe AIR: Visual QuickPro Guide
  • PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide
    • PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (5th Edition)
    • PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (4th Edition)
    • PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (3rd Edition)
    • PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (2nd Edition)
    • PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (1st Edition)
  • PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide
    • PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition)
    • PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (4th Edition)
    • PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (3rd Edition)
    • PHP for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition)
    • PHP for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (1st Edition)
  • Effortless E-commerce with PHP and MySQL
    • Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL (2nd Edition)
    • Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL
  • PHP Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide
    • PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual QuickPro Guide (3rd Edition)
    • PHP 5 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide (2nd Edition)
    • PHP Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide
  • MySQL: Visual QuickStart Guide
    • MySQL: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition)
    • MySQL: Visual QuickStart Guide (1st Edition)
  • Other
    • Announcements
    • Newsletter, Blog, and Other Topics
    • Forum Issues
    • Social

Find results in...

Find results that contain...


Date Created

  • Start

    End


Last Updated

  • Start

    End


Filter by number of...

Joined

  • Start

    End


Group


Found 1 result

  1. I wonder if anyone can help with this little puzzle. I am creating a listing of properties which includes a photo and a description in html. The description is drawn down from MySQL but may be 2,000 plus characters long. As I only want to display the first, say, 300 characters and the <a> link (you know the sort of thing: Wonderful property, hot and cold running water, great views....see more.... ) The code is:.... if($prop_live == "1") { echo '<tr style ="background-color: #FFFF99; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 12px 12px;"><td>' . $prop_name . '<br /><a href = "images/properties/' . $prop_ref . 'jpg" target = "_blank"><img src = "images/properties/' . $prop_ref . 'jpg" width = "160" alt = "Image missing - sorry." /></a></td><td style = "text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 20px; ">' . substr($prop_desc, 0, 300) . ' ...more information....<br /><br />' . $elec2 . '<br />' . $water2 . '</td><td style = "text-align: right; vertical-align: top; padding: 20px;">' . $prop_price . '</td></tr>'; } (Note: I haven't added the <a href> bit yet around ...more information...) All is well and good until we are unlucky enough to encounter an html control such as <sup> or á and cut it in half. We then have incomplete html code which messes up the <td> or worse. I have scratched my head over this and been through all of the php text handling functions trying to cut the length of the string e.g. 303 or 298 characters or whatever, where one encounters a space. The alternative would be to convert the html code <sup>2</sup> before 'echo'ing it. I guess striptags would work but leave us with a non-superscript 2. Thanks Max
×
×
  • Create New...