limit length of displayed text get_the_title

$postheader .= '<abbr class="published" title="' . get_the_title() . '">' . substr(get_the_title(), 0 , 2) . '</abbr></span>';

Try this.

Hi Chinmoy,

That’s great thanks.

However, it doesn’t display the – correctly, it came up as a ?.

I take it the 2 is the letter count, but can you explain to me what that code does, the 0,2 so I have a better understanding how to manipulate it?

Many thanks,
Andy

substr
(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

substr — Return part of a string
Description
string substr ( string string, int start [, int length])

substr() returns the portion of string specified by the start and length parameters.

If start is non-negative, the returned string will start at the start’th position in string, counting from zero. For instance, in the string ‘abcdef’, the character at position 0 is ‘a’, the character at position 2 is ‘c’, and so forth.

Example:

<?php
$rest = substr("abcdef", 1);    // returns "bcdef"
$rest = substr("abcdef", 1, 3); // returns "bcd"
$rest = substr("abcdef", 0, 4); // returns "abcd"
$rest = substr("abcdef", 0, 8); // returns "abcdef"

// Accessing via curly braces is another option
$string = 'abcdef';
echo $string{0};                // returns a
echo $string{3};                // returns d
?>

thanks very much for the explanation. it helps a lot.

hi,
I have used the following code in my theme functions.php to shorten post title on the home page:

// WordPress Hack by Knowtebook.com
// Shorten any text you want

function ShortTitle($text)

{

// Change to the number of characters you want to display

$chars_limit = 30;

$chars_text = strlen($text);

$text = $text." ";

$text = substr($text,0,$chars_limit);

$text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));

// If the text has more characters that your limit,
//add ... so the user knows the text is actually longer

if ($chars_text > $chars_limit)

{

$text = $text."...";

}

return $text;

}

and the following line in place of the_title in the page template:

<?php echo ShortTitle(get_the_title()); ?>

and it works fine in my theme

Great!!! Awesome work @nicovece. Please mark this topic as resolved.

Thanks
C

np

does anyone care that @yesmaybe as the owner of this thread asked to limit the title to a certain number of words – not characters?

<?php $short_title = explode(' ',get_the_title()); $short_title = $short_title[0].' '.$short_title[1]; echo $short_title; ?>

Thank you nicovece!

I was looking for this function!! ??

Thank you very much nicovece!