Let’s say I have a php loop on output
<?php foreach ($items as $item) { ?>
<div class="title"><?= $item->title ?></div>
<div class="description"><?= $item->description?></div>
<?php } ?>
As a result, in html I get the following
<div class="title">What is Lorem Ipsum?</div>
<div class="description">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</div>
Now my description field has 566 characters
How can I make the maximum number of characters for the description field on the php side so that the maximum number of characters for the description field is, say, 230 and it is displayed like this with three dots at the end?
<div class="title">What is Lorem Ipsum?</div>
<div class="description">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type...</div>
>Solution :
You can do this by checking the length and using a substring when the description exceeds the length you set.
<div class="description">
<?php echo (strlen($item->description) > 230) ? substr($item->description, 0, 230) . '...' : $item->description ?>
</div>