How do you cut off text after a certain amount of characters in PHP?

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jiexi picture jiexi · Aug 6, 2009 · Viewed 41.9k times · Source

I have two string that i want to limit to lets say the first 25 characters for example. Is there a way to cut off text after the 25th character and add a ... to the end of the string?

So '12345678901234567890abcdefg' would turn into '12345678901234567890abcde...' where 'fg' is cut off.

Answer

Tyler Carter picture Tyler Carter · Aug 6, 2009

May I make a modification to pallan's code?

$truncated = (strlen($string) > 20) ? substr($string, 0, 20) . '...' : $string;

This doesn't add the '...' if it is shorter.

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