在PHP中，我应该如何缩短标题和段落中的长字符串以使它们适合固定边界？

Question

When building websites I'm forever chopping up strings to make them display nicely as headings and paragraphs. I use the substr function to chop-off unwanted characters and then add in ellipses. For example:

if ( strlen ( $mystring ) > 22 ) {
 echo substr( $mystring,0,21 ).'...';
} else {
 echo $mystring;
}

This works pretty good most of the time, but it is far from perfect. Check out how the shortened headings look on one of my sites. You can clearly see a lot of inconsistency in how the shortened headings look.

Surely, there is a better PHP method/ technique?

Answer 1

Edit: My bad, you want ellipsis... Your ellipses looks fine on that page you showed...

If you Really want them to line up you could put the text in an inline element with max width such and such and overflow: hidden followed by a seperate element with the ellipsis.