Question

I have a string that must fit into a box, and must be at most 3 lines long. To shorten it, I plan to truncate it and end it with ‘…’. I could shorten it to a certain # of characters but if i make it look good with “wwwwwwwww […] wwww” it won’t look right with “iiiiiiiiiii […] iiii”.

Is there some way I can shorten it by how much space the string would take up, as opposed to how many characters there are in a string without using a fixed-width font? Ideally I’d like to do this server-side (php) but recognize that actual character width stuff is far more likely to be feasible client-side (JS / jQuery)

Mala

ps. Please no “simply create an image of ‘…’ and overlay it over the end of the line” hacks or similar – I actually want to shorten the string to the appropriate length

Answer 1

There’s imageftbbox and imagettfbbox for that.