symfony 2 twig limit the length of the text and put three dots

Question

How can I limit the length of the text, e.g., 50, and put three dots in the display?

{% if myentity.text|length > 50 %}

{% block td_text %} {{ myentity.text}         


        

Answer 1

Update for Twig 2 and Twig 3.

truncate filter is not available, instead of it you may use u-filter

here is an example:

{{ 'Lorem ipsum'|u.truncate(8) }}
Lorem ip

{{ 'Lorem ipsum'|u.truncate(8, '...') }}
Lorem...

Note: this filter is part of StringExtension that can be required by

twig/string-extra

Answer 2

@olegkhuss solution with named UTF-8 Elipsis: {{ (my.text|length > 50 ? my.text|slice(0, 50) ~ '…' : my.text) }}

Answer 3

Another one is:

{{ myentity.text[:50] ~ '...' }}

Answer 4

I know this is a very old question, but from twig 1.6 you can use the slice filter;

{{ myentity.text|slice(0, 50) ~ '...' }}

The second part from the tilde is optional for if you want to add something for example the ellipsis.

Edit: My bad, I see the most up-voted answer do make use of the slice filter.

Answer 5

{{ myentity.text|length > 50 ? myentity.text|slice(0, 50) ~ '...' : myentity.text  }}

You need Twig 1.6

Answer 6

why not use twig's truncate or wordwrap filter? It belongs to twig extensions and lib is part of Symfony2.0 as i see.

{{ text|truncate(50) }}