Re: truncate a link

@see http://book.cakephp.org/1.3/en/view/1469/Text

you mixed up the order
if you do that before it will first truncate the link, of course.

after you translated it to html you can truncate (setting html param
to true) the result then.

On 4 Feb., 16:34, Tomfox Wiranata <tomfox.wiran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have a long url like
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/world/middleeast/syria-homs-death-t...
> that i retrieve from an array $contact['value'];
>
> now i only want to show the first 30 characters without destroying the
> link. when i do this
>
> $this->Message->createAutoLink($this->Text-
>
> >truncate($contact['value'], 25));
>
> the hyperlink gets created an works, unless i truncate the string. and
> this link comes out
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012...
>
> is truncate the wrong function?
>
> thanks a lot :)

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