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Re: use of substring in php

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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

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use of substring in php Co <vonclausowitz@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 14:19 -0700
  Re: use of substring in php Denis McMahon <denis.m.f.mcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 23:04 +0000
  Re: use of substring in php Bill B <me@privacy.net> - 2011-06-20 20:40 -0400
    Re: use of substring in php Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2011-06-21 12:36 +0000
  Re: use of substring in php dougatmilmacdotcom@example.com (Doug Miller) - 2011-06-21 00:41 +0000
    Re: use of substring in php bobmct <bobm3@worthless.info> - 2011-06-20 21:16 -0400
  Re: use of substring in php Erwin Moller <Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_much@spamyourself.com> - 2011-06-21 11:04 +0200

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