jahflasher (User) Senior Boarder Posts: 71 Karma: 2   how to add link to dynamic truncated text by jahflasher 1 Year ago i have this code that truncate a value passed to it if the text is greater than a certain number. What i want now is to be able to dynamically add a ink to the truncate symbol ... so that users can click on that more details. this is the _script_. $comment = $row_rsMyp_com['comment_com']; $output = substr($comment, 0, 75) ; echo $output .= "..."; I want to now add a _link_ to the ... so that users can view all the message. Any help is appreciated. Last Edit: 10/29/2007 09:05pm By jahflasher. The administrator has disabled public write access. | Report to moderator   Logged   cyberpunk (Admin) Admin Posts: 307 Karma: 0   Re:how to add link to dynamic truncated text by cyberpunk 1 Year ago ahh.. but thats a ssimple as adding an href to the "..." and _link_ing it to a page that displays the entire comment Code: :   $comment = "full text no concatenation at all"; echo $ouput."..." on fullcomment.php yould just echo $comment which has the... full comment. Last Edit: 10/30/2007 09:33pm By cyberpunk. Reason: added code tags The administrator has disabled public write access. | Report to moderator   Logged   jahflasher (User) Senior Boarder Posts: 71 Karma: 2   Re:how to add link to dynamic truncated text by jahflasher 1 Year ago it sounds easy but i am getting error when i try to output the _link_ on the ..., look what i did: echo $output .= "a href="test.php".../a"; ie: i deleted the greater than and less than signs from this because the forum strips the whole _link_ from the data_base_. Any idea where i am going wrong. note. it seems like this forum software auto strip any kind of _script_s. I cant get the forum to save php _link_ i have placed in the $output variable. Last Edit: 10/30/2007 11:21pm By jahflasher. The administrator has disabled public write access. | Report to moderator   Logged   cyberpunk (Admin) Admin Posts: 307 Karma: 0   Re:how to add link to dynamic truncated text by cyberpunk 1 Year ago Could yo up please post the error you get? cause i'm not able to figure out what is causing your error. and secondly. Sorry for the long delay I been in offline mode due to cable and wireless troubles for about 3 weeks. Will look at the stripping problem you pointed out. thanks. testing if I fixed the flaw. Code: :  <a href="test.html">testing</a> Last Edit: 11/07/2007 02:55am By cyberpunk. The administrator has disabled public write access. | Report to moderator   Logged