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Truncate by Characters
Lab: Doing More With PHP String Processing
Video Runtime: 17:18
There are times when you want to truncate a string by a certain number of characters. You are limiting the string to say 100 or 200 characters. How do you do that? In this episode, you and I will build the utility function that will handle it for you. Then you just call it whenever you need that feature in your theme or plugin.
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In this utility function, you used the following instructions:
You will grow in this profession when you incrementally and systematically stretch yourself....bit-by-bit.
Episodes
Total Lab Runtime: 01:58:54
- 1 Lab Introductionfree 03:24
- 2 Checking if String Starts With a Character or Substringpro 13:43
- 3 Explaining the "String Starts With" Strategypro 13:35
- 4 Check if String Ends With a Character or Substring - Part 1pro 15:11
- 5 Check if String Ends With a Character or Substring - Part 2pro 12:52
- 6 Has Substringpro 04:27
- 7 Truncate by Characterspro 17:18
- 8 Truncate by Wordspro 14:35
- 9 Converting to Lowercasepro 07:58
- 10 Converting to Uppercasepro 01:30
- 11 Splitting a String into An Arraypro 07:17
- 12 Joining Array Elements into a Stringpro 03:43
- 13 Wrap it Uppro 03:21
