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PHP Truncate function

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Hey everyone, I was noticing that there are a lot of ways that people are using to write their own string truncation functions wit the use of other functions like 'substr_replace', but it kinda seemed like a lot of them went a bit too far out to make any sense to a n00b. Not that I am one anymore, but I though I'd add a note on this topic myself, in hopes that it might help others understand things a little better.

Here's a concept that some people don't know about, or remember to use often enough; You can actually pull individual characters out of a string by referencing that string as though it were an array. Example: If I have the string $s = 'cat', I can use $s[0] to actually get out only the first character of that string, 'c'. I use that same principle below, but I just use a loop to iterate through a string and add the characters to the output variable one by one until the $lenth param has been reached, or until the end of the string.

I hope this can help someone out!

-Admiral Potato

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  1. <?php
  2.  
  3. function admiralsTruncate($string, $length){
  4. 	settype($string, 'string');
  5. 	settype($length, 'integer');
  6. 	for($a = 0; $a < $length AND $a < strlen($string); $a++){
  7. 		$output .= $string[$a];
  8. 	}
  9. 	return($output);
  10. }
  11.  
  12.  
  13. $my_string = 'cfcd208495d565ef66e7dff9f98764da';
  14.  
  15. echo admiralsTruncate($my_string, 6);    // outputs: cfcd20
  16.  
  17. echo '<br>';
  18.  
  19. echo admiralsTruncate($my_string, 9);    // outputs: cfcd20849
  20.  
  21. ?>

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