Module "Most Popular Post": truncate description after last word
By Joachim Funk on Monday, 03 March 2014
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Hi!

I've a question concerning the module "Most popular post": Is it possible (perhaps with a PHP-funkction) to truncate the description after a last (whole) word and not after x letters in the middle of words? It's not a big problem, but it would look a lot better...

The place to do this is in the helper.php:
$row->summary	= JString::substr( strip_tags( $summary ) , 0 , $params->get( 'textcount' ) ) . '...';


Thanks!
Hi Mark,

thanks for your reply. I'm not so good in PHP and solved it in a beginner-style - but it seems to work. Here's the code:



// truncate string				

    $truncate	= JString::substr( strip_tags( $summary ) , 0 , $params->get( 'textcount' ) );

// make sure it ends in a word 

    $row->summary	= substr($truncate, 0, strrpos($truncate, ' ')). ' [...]';


I know, the code is not really clean and there's a better way to do this. So, if this reads a PHP-expert...
Joachim Funk
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Monday, 03 March 2014 21:22
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Hello Joachim,

Unfortunately there's no easy work around for this but perhaps you can try something like this,



$row->summary	= JString::substr( strip_tags( $summary ) , 0 , JString::strrpos($text,' ') ) . '...';
Mark
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Monday, 03 March 2014 19:28
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No problem Joachim, as long as it works for you Don't worry, we are all learning! I am still learning too even with over 10 years experience with Joomla
Mark
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Monday, 03 March 2014 21:27
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