concatanating something on to end of substr

Discussion in 'PHP' started by liam1412, Aug 7, 2007.

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  1. #1
    I remeber seeing a way to concat something on the end of a substr query.

    ie

    I want to add ............. at the end

    so it would read

    This is too long to fit in the ..........

    using substr('$string' ,0,25);

    Thanks
     
    liam1412, Aug 7, 2007 IP
  2. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #2
    I'm not sure about your use of quotes... try this example

    <?PHP
$a = 'A quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog';
$b = substr($a,0,25).'...';
echo $b;
?>
    PHP:
     
    sarahk, Aug 7, 2007 IP
  3. liam1412

    liam1412 Active Member

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    #3
    Works a treat ta
     
    liam1412, Aug 7, 2007 IP
  4. gwkg

    gwkg Peon

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    #4
    You mentioned the word query... are you using substr in mysql or php only? You can CONCAT directly in your MySql query, as well.
     
    gwkg, Aug 7, 2007 IP