-- Bradley Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 02:28 PM -0400): > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > -- Bradley Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 12:29 PM -0400): > > Is there a simple way in ZF to truncate a string? I searched and didn't > find > > any talk of a ZF specific component for this. I also looked at the list > of > > standard filter classes and didn't see anything there either. I know > there are > > tons of possible ways to do this - I'm just surprised there isn't > anything in > > ZF yet so perhaps I'm just not looking in the right place. > > You're looking for Zend_Filter_StringTrim -- which can be used in the > form classes as well. > > > Maybe I'm just slow today, but I'm not sure how Zend_Filter_StringTrim would > be > used to truncate a string to a given character or word length. I thought it > simply removed given characters from the beginning and end of a string. > > For example, I want to truncate the following: > > The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy sleeping dog. > > to 30 characters: > > The quick brown fox jumped ove > > or to 30 characters, but the closest whole word: > > The quick brown fox jumped > > or to 6 words (instead of characters): > > The quick brown fox jumped over > > Of course, there are probably other features that may be useful too. Is this > something that can be done in Zend_Filter_StringTrim or using another ZF > component? There are numerous ways to do this in PHP directly (so no need for > anyone to post those here) but I was just curious if ZF had a clean and simple > way to do this.
Oh, never mind -- I was thinking "truncate trailing whitespace", not "truncate to a given preset length". Nope, nothing like that currently. Sounds like a good feature request. :) -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
