Limit title lenght in a ditto template

Hi guys!

I need a little help.

I need a list of some articles, with their longtitle - but I need to limit the title to about 30 characters, and if the limit is over, show "..." on the end.

It should look like this:

02/05 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
01/05 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

(Instead of the rest of "aaa" - after the 30th character - there is ... )

Is it possible?

I use DItto to make the list and a template that looks like this:
<li>（[+date+]）<a href="/[~[+id+]~]">[+longtitle+]</a></li>

The ditto part looks like this (I use a filtering by tags):
<ul>
[!Ditto? &dateFormat=`%m/%d` &parents=`264,223,226,283` 　&dateSource=`pub_date` &filter=`tag,1,7` &display=`all` &noResults=`no_post` &tpl=`tag_list` &depth=`0` ;!]
</ul>

With the help of these:

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx#length_.7C_len
http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx/CustomModifiers#phx:character_limit

Quote from: zi at Mar 16, 2009, 04:48 AM

With the help of these:

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx#length_.7C_len
http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx/CustomModifiers#phx:character_limit

<li>（[+date+]）<a href="/[~[+id+]~]">[+longtitle:if=`[+longtitle:len+]`:gt=`30`:then=`[+longtitle:character_limit=`30`+] ...`:else=`[+longtitle+]`+]</a></li>

Almost Everything works including the check for the length of the title. However this part

then=`[+longtitle:character_limit=`30`+] ...`

Does not work, it does not show anything, it is just whitespace. Any advice?

A few notes, longtitle is populated with data and i was debugging and tried [+longtitle+] and it printed out just fine. Not sure if my syntax is wrong but i’m using the code that the previous person entered.

You can always try



Hope it helps