Truncate string in Laravel blade templates

Question

Is there a truncate modifier for the blade templates in Laravel, pretty much like Smarty?

I know I could just write out the actual php in the template but i\'m looki

Answer 1

Laravel 4 has Str::limit which will truncate to the exact number of characters, and also Str::words which will truncate on word boundary.

Check out:

• http://laravel.com/api/4.2/Illuminate/Support/Str.html#method_limit