PHP/jQuery Shorten String And Show More On Click

I have a dynamic page that loads user content from a database. If the user's post is greater than 50 characters, I echo this code: $data['string'] = substr($data['string'], 49, 50)

Solution 1:

If you output all the text from PHP, you can use this Fiddle to make things interesting.

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/iambriansreed/bjdSF/

jQuery(function(){

    var minimized_elements = $('p.minimize');

    minimized_elements.each(function(){    
        var t = $(this).text();        
        if(t.length < 100) return;

        $(this).html(
            t.slice(0,100)+'<span>... </span><a href="#" class="more">More</a>'+
            '<span style="display:none;">'+ t.slice(100,t.length)+' <a href="#" class="less">Less</a></span>'
        );

    }); 

    $('a.more', minimized_elements).click(function(event){
        event.preventDefault();
        $(this).hide().prev().hide();
        $(this).next().show();        
    });

    $('a.less', minimized_elements).click(function(event){
        event.preventDefault();
        $(this).parent().hide().prev().show().prev().show();    
    });

});

source

Solution 2:

Use the JQuery Shorten Plugin it is easy to implement and here is it's demo. The download zip contains samples as well.

Hope it helps