Matthew, On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> -- 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. > :) OK - that's what I thought. As you suggested, I've filed a feature request as ZF-4734: http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-4734 Anyone else who would like to see this please go vote for it :-) Thanks, Bradley > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ > -- Bradley Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
