Re: paginate posts substring body which uses tinymce - do i substr in the paginate or at the view?

i am so ignorant.

http://book.cakephp.org/view/1625/truncate

this is the solution and a great one.

On Jan 3, 8:25 pm, Zeu5 <kimc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> i have a cake webapp that includes a blog.
>
> the body of the blog posts uses tinymce so i can put in some HTML
> coding for  the body of the post.
>
> At the index page of the blog, i do a posts/index which uses
> paginate(). Straight forward enough.
>
> here comes the problem.
>
> at the index, i am displaying something like 25 posts per page.
>
> i want to display a shortened summary of the body of each post.
>
> there are 2 ways to do a substr.
>
> 1 way is at the paginate and use the sql code to do the substr. but i
> do not know how to get it to work with cakephp paginate
>
> another way is that the paginate retrieves the entire body of the post
> and then i use php substr function at the index.ctp.
>
> both seem not ideal when dealing with tinymce'd description.
>
> Please advise.

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