Restrict the number of characters in a label [ Sorted ]

  
  
/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  
   Function:  
      limitText  
     
   Description:  
      Create a String of fixed length  at word boundaries & strip slashes  
    
   Params  
      $String - Input string  
	  Length - Length of strin to return..  No value just strips slashes  
  
   Returns  
      Clean String (Slashes stripped) of desired length  
  
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */  
function limitText($String,$length=0){  
  
$TString=$String;  
  
//$TString=urldecode($TString);  
  
if($length > 0){  
$i=1;  
$FLV=ExtractString($TString,'<div id="player',"</div>");  
if($FLV){  
//echo "It ".$FLV;  
$TString=str_replace($FLV,'">',$TString);  
$TString=str_replace("var s".$i." = new","",$TString);  
}  
  
}  
  
if(stristr($TString,"<a")){$a=1;}else{  
$TString=str_replace("\n","<br/>",$TString);  
$TString=str_replace("\r","",$TString);  
  
$TString=stripslashes($TString);  
$TString=stripslashes($TString);  
$TString=stripslashes($TString);  
}  
  
if ($length==0) return $TString;  
  
$TString=strip_tags($TString);  
$TString=substr($TString,0,$length);  
$TString=strrev($TString);  
$TString=substr($TString,strpos($TString," ")+1);  
$TString=strrev($TString)."....";  
  
return $TString;  
}  
  
  
/*  
Function ExtractString($str,$start,$end)  
Retruns The value of a string between two strings of tags  
  
$str = Sthring to search in  
$start = First Tag to start search between  
$end   = End Tag to search between  
  
Returns $string between the start and end tags  
		null if not found  
  
*/  
  
function ExtractString($str, $start, $end)  
{  
$str_low = strtolower($str);  
$pos_start = @strpos($str_low, $start);  
$pos_end = @strpos($str_low, $end, ($pos_start + strlen($start)));  
if ( ($pos_start !== false) && ($pos_end !== false) )  
{  
$pos1 = $pos_start + strlen($start);  
$pos2 = $pos_end - $pos1;  
return substr($str, $pos1, $pos2);  
}  
}