Question

I want description, resolution and additional_notes to get cut off when it gets longer than 6 words and then have the “…” with a link to “see full case”. I only want this to show on the fields that got cut off, not the ones that are less than 6 words because the full field would already be showing. If you guys could please help me figure out how to do this it would make my day! thank you!

I have this query which so far only works to get the field to cut off at 6 words:

$sql = ("SELECT id, sso, case_status, assigned_to, updated, created, SUBSTRING_INDEX(additional_notes,' ',6) as additional_notes, SUBSTRING_INDEX(resolution,' ',6) as resolution, SUBSTRING_INDEX(description,' ',6) as description FROM rmstable2 WHERE sso LIKE '%{$sso}%'");

The results show up in a table sort of like this:

Description: php here
Resolution: php here
Additional Notes: php here
and so on…

Answer 1

How about this:

<?php

$text = array(
    'some long texts with multiple words, more then seven',
    'some long texts with multiple words, more then seven',
    'some long texts with multiple words, more then seven'
);

$new_text = array();
foreach ( $text as $key => $string ) {
    $words = explode( ' ', $string );
    for ( $k=0; $k<6; $k++ ) {
        if ( $words[ $k ] ) $new_text[ $key ] .= $words[ $k ] . ' ';
    }
    $new_text[ $key ] .= '...';
    # Or like this, if you don't need the space
    //$new_text[ $key ] = rtrim( $new_text[ $key ] ) . '...';

}
print_r( $new_text );

?>

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => some long texts with multiple words, ...
    [1] => some long texts with multiple words, ...
    [2] => some long texts with multiple words, ...
)

Or a CSS way:

overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
width: 200px;

Hope that helps.