Question

I’ve got just a quick problem. I’ve got code that returns the last post for separate titles for a forum. I want to limit the number of characters shown and put the (… …).

I’m having difficulty with a nested if statement in my while loop:

    $query  = "SELECT comment FROM Assembly WHERE title = 'Checkered' ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 1";
$result = mysql_query($query);


while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($message))
{

 if(strlen($message) > 10)
  {
   echo substr($message, 0, 10)."…";
  }
 else
  {
    echo    "Last Post:<br>";
    echo    strip_tags("{$row['comment']}");

  }
}

thanks in advance 🙂

**edit
yes css text-overflow:ellipsis; works great!! Thanks guys

***edit working code incase you want

   $query  = "SELECT comment FROM Assembly WHERE title = 'Checkered' ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 1";
$result = mysql_query($query);

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{

 $comment = strip_tags($row['comment']);
 if(strlen($comment) > 30)
  {
   echo substr($comment, 0, 30)."...";
  }
 else
  {
    echo    "Last Post:<br>";
    echo    $comment;

  }
}

Answer 1

You give nout over as to the problem but I am going to go out on a limb and guess the problem. Try this:

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($message))
{

 $comment = strip_tags($row['comment']);
 if(strlen($coment) > 10)
  {
   echo substr($comment, 0, 10)."...";
  }
 else
  {
    echo    "Last Post:<br>";
    echo    $comment;

  }
}