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Omar G. · 22 Oct, 2015, 12:08 pm

I like to trim long messages to show only a portion of it to the front end user. I do this directly in my forum or as a feature while coding multiple plugins. Here I will explain to you how to do it directly within your theme.

Requirements

[]Upload Template Conditionals plugin by Yumi and activate it (v1.7.7 as of this).
[]Upload the following plugin file to your plugin directory and activate it.

Steps
After installing both plugins.

Go to your FTP, inside your plugins directory, find and open the “phptpl_allowed_funcs.txt” file.
Find:

Code:

validate_email_format

Add after:

Code:

ougc_getpreview

You should now be able to use any of the following within your templates to strip any message down.

You can use something like:

Code:

        <?=ougc_getpreview($post['message'])?>

<?=ougc_getpreview($post['message'], 100)?>

<?=ougc_getpreview($post['message'], 50, false)?>

<?=ougc_getpreview($post['message'], 0, true, false)?>

I hope it is of some use for you.

Omar G.