Read more... if text more than 600 characters

[NealeWeb]

I am wanting to display large text blocks from a database but i would like to stop the text if its longer than 600 characters and display Read more... as a link.

 

Can someone please help me?

[anupamsaha]

The theory would be like this:

 

<?php
$t = "Your text goes here Your text goes here Your text goes here Your text goes here Your text goes here Your text goes here Your text goes here Your text goes here Your text goes here";
echo substr($t,0,10), (strlen($t) > 10) ? ' <a href="yourlink">more...</a>' : ''; // taken 10 as limit. you can use 600 here or make it a variable.
?>

[NealeWeb]

Wow that is perfect it works great thankyou so much

[anupamsaha]

Please mark the topic as "resolved" if you are satisfied with the help.

[NealeWeb]

Ok sorry onne more thing i am trying to use this in an existing echo but im having trouble.

 

I get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'  on line 48

 

This is what i have tried:

echo '<div align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="969" background="imgs/reviewbox.png" height="157">
	<tr>
		<td height="19" ><span class="font1">' . $jtitle . '</span></td>
		<td height="19" >
		<p align="right"><a href="review.php?review_id=' . $revid . '"><span class="font">View Full review</span></a></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		Line 48 >>> <td valign="top" colspan="2"><span class="font">substr($t,0,, (strlen($t) >  ? ' <a href="yourlink">Read more...</a>' : '';</span></td> <<< Line 48
	</tr>
</table>
</div>';

 

Is it possible to make it a variable like this in any way:

<?php
$t = "Your text";
$y= substr($t,0,, (strlen($t) >  ? ' <a href="yourlink">Read more...</a>' : '';
echo $y;

?>

 

I am very new at php so im sure im making some pretty silly mistakes.

[anupamsaha]

No worries. Here you go:

echo '<div align="center">
  <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="969" background="imgs/reviewbox.png" height="157">
    <tr>
      <td height="19" ><span class="font1">' . $jtitle . '</span></td>
      <td height="19" >
      <p align="right"><a href="review.php?review_id=' . $revid . '"><span class="font">View Full review</span></a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top" colspan="2"><span class="font">' . substr($t,0, . ((strlen($t) >  ? ' <a href="yourlink">Read more...</a>' : '') . '</span></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>';

 

If you are trying to take a variable, do this:

<?php
$t = "Your text";
$y = substr($t,0, . ((strlen($t) >  ? ' <a href="yourlink">Read more...</a>' : ''); // see that I have enclosed the conditional statement in braces.
echo $y;
?>