Shorten URLs

[tbones]

I have a problem with long URLs in the commments and story texts (http://forums.pligg.com/general-help...ry-text.html): They end in the middle of the sidebar.

Is it possible to shorten their display like it is here in preview mode: some 20 characters and three dots ?


P.S.: If I would know how to code the story-id (Individual comment link) some of my problems would disappear. :-)

[tbones]

Anyone interested?

[tbones]

Could this code be helpful apart from the missing dots at the end?

<?php

$text = preg_replace('@http://((\S{1,20})\S+)@','<a href="http://\\1" target="_blank">\\2</a>',$text);

?>

[tbones]

I´ve found a wordpress plugin called shrinkylink (void *). Maybe it can be used with little adaption.

[tbones]

Another solution would be wrapping. See on the browser side (FF): https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2547

[kbeeveer46]

Here is a function that will shorten text to a certain amount of characters

PHP Code:

function ShortenText($text) {
    $chars = 20;

  $text = $text." ";
  $text = substr($text,0,$chars);
  $text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));
  $text = $text."...";

  return $text;
  }        
    
?> 


Sample usage:

$sampleText = 'This is some sample text. This is some sample text'

ShortenText(sampleText);

Output:

This is some sample ...

Basically you pass whatever you want into the ShortText function and it will only display 20 chars and three periods on the end.

BTW, I have lost my touch for PHP since I program in ASP.NET all day so it may not be perfect.

[tbones]

Thank you kbeeveer46,

but I have no clue where to call that function. In text_to_html (auto-recognition of hyperlinks in story text) ?

[tbones]

Anyone interested?

[AshDigg]

This will truncate the story titles. Still working on something for the comments. Click on the 'text changed' links to see the changes that need to be made.

[tbones]

Thank you, I guess you missed a '' at line 17 of sidebarstories.php.

I not sure wheter I got you right: I have a problem with long URLs in the description of a story and in comments, respectively. This has also consequences to the sidebar display of those URL links.

I´ve encountered another severe problem: Large comments lead to a size at comment management that pushes the check box for deletion under the sidebars, i.e. they´re without a function. Could you please fix that?

Another question: Is revision 1237 related to this problem (http://forums.pligg.com/bug-report/7...sidebar.html)?