Textpattern CMS

#1 2007-03-14 14:03:00

dingoboy

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Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 48

Reduce length of titles?

I’m looking for a way to reduce the length of a <txp:title />, so that if its length exceeds more than 30 characters, for instance, it is cut off. Please notice that I’m not talking about wrapping the titles. See my example below.

Example:

Original: This is a long and dreadful title
Reduced: This is a long and dre…

I haven’t managed to find a plugin or the like, for this purpose.

#2 2007-03-14 15:12:52

ruud

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Re: Reduce length of titles?

Perhaps something like this (not tested):

<txp:php>
  preg_match('/^(.{0,30})(.*)$/u', title(array()), $match);
  echo $match[1];
  if (strlen($match[2])) echo '...';
</txp:php>

#3 2007-03-14 15:47:16

maniqui

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Registered: 2004-10-10

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Re: Reduce length of titles?

Just for consistency with the current Textpattern output, I suggest to change the three dots to an ellipsis.

<txp:php>
  preg_match('/^(.{0,30})(.*)$/u', title(array()), $match);
  echo $match[1];
  if (strlen($match[2])) echo '…';
</txp:php>

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#4 2007-03-14 19:00:48

Mary

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Registered: 2004-06-27

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Re: Reduce length of titles?

sab_substr

<txp:sab_substr limit="30" trail="&#8230;"><txp:title /></txp:sab_substr>

#5 2007-03-14 19:02:51

ruud

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Re: Reduce length of titles?

sab_substr isn’t UTF-8 safe.

#6 2007-03-15 08:30:02

dingoboy

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Registered: 2006-09-07

Posts: 48

Re: Reduce length of titles?

Thanks a lot! :-)