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Created March 16, 2012 18:52
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truncate-text.php
<?php
// From: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/php/truncate-string-in-center/
$longString = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789z.jpg';
$separator = '/.../';
$separatorlength = strlen($separator) ;
$maxlength = 25 - $separatorlength;
$start = $maxlength / 2 ;
$trunc = strlen($longString) - $maxlength;
echo substr_replace($longString, $separator, $start, $trunc);
//prints "abcdefghij/.../56789z.jpg"
?>
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