<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >truncate</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Smarty Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Variable Modifiers" HREF="language.modifiers.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="strip_tags" HREF="language.modifier.strip.tags.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="upper" HREF="language.modifier.upper.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Smarty Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.modifier.strip.tags.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 5. 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If you want to cut off at the exact character length, pass the optional third parameter of <TT CLASS="constant" >TRUE</TT >. </P ><DIV CLASS="informaltable" ><A NAME="AEN1330" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><THEAD ><TR ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Parameter Position</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Type</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Required</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Default</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Description</TH ></TR ></THEAD ><TBODY ><TR ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >1</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >integer</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >No</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >80</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >This determines how many characters to truncate to.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >2</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >string</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >No</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >...</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >This is a text string that replaces the truncated text. Its length is NOT included in the truncation length setting.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >3</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >boolean</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >No</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ><TT CLASS="constant" >FALSE</TT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >This determines whether or not to truncate at a word boundary with <TT CLASS="constant" >FALSE</TT >, or at the exact character with <TT CLASS="constant" >TRUE</TT >.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >4</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >boolean</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >No</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ><TT CLASS="constant" >FALSE</TT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >This determines whether the truncation happens at the end of the string with <TT CLASS="constant" >FALSE</TT >, or in the middle of the string with <TT CLASS="constant" >TRUE</TT >. Note that if this setting is <TT CLASS="constant" >TRUE</TT >, then word boundaries are ignored. </TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN1376" ></A ><P ><B >Example 5-21. truncate</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'articleTitle'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Two Sisters Reunite after Eighteen Years at Checkout Counter.'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > where template is: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >{$articleTitle} {$articleTitle|truncate} {$articleTitle|truncate:30} {$articleTitle|truncate:30:""} {$articleTitle|truncate:30:"---"} {$articleTitle|truncate:30:"":true} {$articleTitle|truncate:30:"...":true} {$articleTitle|truncate:30:'..':true:true}</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > This will output: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >Two Sisters Reunite after Eighteen Years at Checkout Counter. Two Sisters Reunite after Eighteen Years at Checkout Counter. Two Sisters Reunite after... Two Sisters Reunite after Two Sisters Reunite after--- Two Sisters Reunite after Eigh Two Sisters Reunite after E... 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