Should be simple...

...but I'm clueless.

What I would like to know, is how can I get text, when over certain number of characters to shorten to add ... at the end.

You should be able to see what I mean here in the "Latest Blog Posts" section:

http://www.sebspad.com/

Instead of it cutting to the next line, I want it to stay on one line, but add ... at the end.

Help is appreciated!

$title = $_POST['title'];

$text = substr($title,0,100);

echo "$text" . "...";

This would only show the first 100 characters.

Thanks, but I have no idea how I would integrate this with the Wordpress plugin "Recent Posts". If anyone is familiar with it and knows how I could do so, that would be great.

Edit: Actually, I think I found out how to do it in the documentation. Thanks!

Originally Posted by enigma $text = substr($title,0,100);

Note that substr() is not UTF-8 compatible and can screw up non-ascii characters. Instead use mb_substr().

And if you are interested in a function that will preserve full words, I created text::limit_chars() for Kohana long time ago: http://dev.kohanaphp.com/browser/tru...p?rev=3366#L40