Limiting number of characters displayed in table cell

Question

I have a PHP loop that adds data into a table cell. However, I want to apply a static size to the table cell, so if more data is returned than can fit inside the cell I want th

Answer 1

$table_cell_data = "";  // This would hold the data in the cell
$cell_limit      = 100; // This would be the limit of characters you wanted

// Check if table cell data is greater than the limit
if(strlen($table_cell_data) > $cell_limit) {
   // this is to keep the character limit to 100 instead of 103. OPTIONAL
   $sub_string = $cell_limit - 3; 

   // Take the sub string and append the ...
   $table_cell_data = substr($table_cell_data,0,$sub_string)."...";
}

// Testing output
echo $table_cell_data."
\n";