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From: Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net>
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Subject: Re: use of substring in php
Date: 21 Jun 2011 12:36:54 GMT
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:40:40 -0400, Bill B wrote:
> On 6/20/2011 5:19 PM, Co wrote:
>>
>> I want to cut down the name of the user to 10 characters so it will
>> fit to the picture of the user.
>> At this moment I use $firstnameCut = substr($firstname, 0, 10);
>> However sometimes the name is like:
>>
>> Johannes Paul.
>> with my code it will show: Johannes P
>>
>> How can I change this so if the second or third name doesn't fit
>> within the 10 characters
>> it will not be shown at all?
>
> This is not a PHP answer per se. Give some though to using the first X 
> characters from the first name and the first Y characters from the last 
> name. It may resolve some of your dilemma. 

> It has a favorable side 
> effect of producing a decently unique set of characters (most of the time).

And, an 'interesting' side effect of sometimes producing fairly 
vulgar character strings...

Jonesy