{"id":62,"date":"2009-02-03T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T11:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ridgesolutions.ie\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-02-19T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T17:02:01","slug":"neat_trim-handy-for-tailored-drupal-teasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ridgesolutions.ie\/index.php\/2009\/02\/03\/neat_trim-handy-for-tailored-drupal-teasers\/","title":{"rendered":"neat_trim() – Handy for tailored drupal teasers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In drupal there are many ways to go about putting together teasers for custom content types created with the Content Creation Kit (CCK)<\/a>. The quickest to get up and running with is often to use the Content Templates (Contemplate)<\/a>\u00a0module, this allows you to specify in-line markup and PHP with code to get at and display the node’s data fields – formatted\u00a0just\u00a0as you require.<\/p>\n

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Often\u00a0when putting together a\u00a0teaser you may want to neatly truncate some long text to a summary and append ‘…’ or the like to the end – well there’s a great little PHP function which does just this called neat_trim()<\/a>\u00a0it is provided by Justin Cook<\/a>\u00a0and does the job\u00a0 nicely!<\/p>\n

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One thing to note however is that HTML mark-up as well as newlines and carriage-returns in the input string can confuse this function.\u00a0 To get around this problem you can arrange to remove the offending material either by modifying the function or by stripping it out of the input string before calling the function.\u00a0 Use can use strip_tags()<\/a> to remove HTML mark-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In drupal there are many ways to go about putting together teasers for custom content types created with the Content Creation Kit (CCK). The quickest to get up and running with is often to use the Content Templates (Contemplate)\u00a0module, this allows you to specify in-line markup and PHP with code to get at and display […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,17],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-drupal","tag-php"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t