[musiccreatures]

Assuming that tbl_title is a varchar(100) and using the below code, how would I truncate the {$_tmp['tbl_title']} to 30 characters or less? I tried {$tmp['tbl_title']|truncate:30} but I received a Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '|', expecting '}'. Any idea's what I did wrong?

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foreach ($_rt as $_tmp) {                 $_sel["{$_tmp['tbl_id']}"] = "{$_tmp['tbl_title']} ({$_mcad['tbl_startdate']})";             }

[SteveX]

You can only use smarty in templates, so you will need to use php

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foreach ($_rt as $_tmp) {                 $truncatedtitle = substr($_tmp['tbl_title'], 0, 30);                 $_sel["{$_tmp['tbl_id']}"] = $truncatedtitle . " ({$_mcad['tbl_startdate']})";             }

http://uk.php.net/substr


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[musiccreatures]

Awesome. Thanks SteveX

[Brian]

Just an FYI that if you know you are going to always truncate, it's faster to do it in PHP - i.e.

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foreach ($_rt as $_tmp) {     $_sel["{$_tmp['tbl_id']}"] = substr("{$_tmp['tbl_title']} ({$_mcad['tbl_startdate']})",0,30); }

Hope this helps!

- Brian


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[musiccreatures]

Thanks for the reply bigguy. I am fairly new to PHP, but very experienced in classic ASP(the dead technology). lol. But im catching on quick