Limit the number of characters on the Master Page?

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Question: In regard to the master page, does anyone know how to limit the number of characters to display only 250 in Dreamweaver CS4?

That is easily fixed. Use this custom instead of the function:

function extractChars($text, $chars = 250) {
     if (strlen($text) < $chars) {
          return $text;
     } else {
          $pos = strpos($text, ' ', $chars);
          return substr($text, 0, $pos) . '...';
     }
}

Put this function definition in your page and use it like this:

echo extractChars($row_recordsetName['fieldName']);

If the text is less than 250 characters, you will have just the full text. If it is more than 250, you get the shortcut text.

The function has an optional second argument, which determines the number of characters you want to use as a boundary. So, if you want only the first hundred, follow these steps:

echo extractChars($row_recordsetName['fieldName'], 100);

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