To print 3 lines of content

bloggero — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:05:29 +0000

To print 3 lines of content with html tags included. If I cut too much sometimes are printed 2 lines, if I increase that value sometimes 4 lines are printed.

The only way I know to get

webwiz — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:08:20 +0000

The only way I know to get the size of text on the screen is by using JavaScript. The fonts in your font stack are of different sizes, affecting the number of characters in a line. In addition, there are many settings of both the browser and the computer that affect text size. I don't think there's a way of detecting such settings with PHP.

Even with JavaScript it is tricky, as you need to put the text in a shrink-wrapped container to measure any particular piece of text. Then you have to monitor continuously for changes to browser text size settings.

Can you describe what you hope to achieve, exactly?

Oh, ok. So you are looking

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:26:17 +0000

Oh, ok. So you are looking to get a string width in pixels? PHP does offer the ability to get the dimensions of a string in pixels, using the imagettfbbox() function, but that is only for overlaying text on a graphic.

I strip tags before before

bloggero — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:05:44 +0000

I strip tags before before getting the string length, but the problem is in the character length in pixels, or so I think, and I don't know how to solve this.

As long as you strip the

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:45:38 +0000

As long as you strip the tags before getting the string length, you should have no problem getting the proper length that matches all the others.