Limit String Length

Question

I\'m looking for a way to limit a string in php and add on ... at the end if the string was too long.

Answer 1

In Laravel, there is a string util function for this, and it is implemented this way:

public static function limit($value, $limit = 100, $end = '...')
{
    if (mb_strwidth($value, 'UTF-8') <= $limit) {
        return $value;
    }

    return rtrim(mb_strimwidth($value, 0, $limit, '', 'UTF-8')).$end;
}