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Hi there, I don't how I can get the last characters of my string.
What I am making is a read more button, in the first part it gets the characters from 0 to 100 (works fine), but then in the second part I want all the characters from 100 till the end of the string... Does someone know how to please?
<span>{{substr($calendar->details, 0, 100)}}{{ strlen($calendar->details) > 100 ? "..." : ""}} </span>
<div>
<span id="text">
here all the text after 100 charachters
</span>
</div>
<div class="btn-container">
<button id="toggle">Read More</button>
</div>
Thanks!
Laravel has a nice helper to do that:
<span>{{ str_limit($calendar->details, 100, '...') }}</span>
https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/helpers#method-str-limit
And you can do this for the other part:
@if (strlen($calendar->details) > 100)
<span id="text">
...{{ substr($calendar->details, 100) }}
</span>
@endif
For your first part there is a handy laravel helper:
str_limit($calendar->details, 100);
But to show everything after the first 100 there is no easy helper but you could create your own helper for that that contains:
mb_substr($calendar->details, 100)
Well, if substr(0,100) gets the fitst 100, and you already calculate strlen, won't substr(100, strlen) or something like that get the remainder?
For the beginning:
str_limit($calendar->details, 100);
For the end:
substr($calendar->details, 100)
"For the end" is incorrect, should be
substr($calendar->details, -100)
$rest = substr("abcdef", -1); // returns "f"
$rest = substr("abcdef", -2); // returns "ef"
$rest = substr("abcdef", -3, 1); // returns "d"
Sure thing. Mine just had an additional check to not even show the span with the remainder of the text unless it was > 100.
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