abbreviate usernames in discussions overview so they don't exceed 6 characters (e.g. 'Userna...')

fh111

how can i abbreviate usernames in discussions overview so they are not longer than 6 characters (e.g. 'Username' --> 'Userna...')

?

i am in applications/vanilla/views/discussions/helper_funtions.php

i tried to add

$short = substr_replace($Last, '...', 6);

and changed

           echo '<span class="LastCommentBy">'.sprintf(T('Most recent by %1$s'), UserAnchor($Last)).'</span>';

to

           echo '<span class="LastCommentBy">'.sprintf(T('Most recent by %1$s'), UserAnchor($short)).'</span>';

but it's giving me a 'bonk'

anyone know how to?
thanks

sahotataran

UserAnchor takes in FULL USER OBJECT detail rather than just passing the USERNAME.
for reference you can check the function UserAnchor in /library/core/functions.render.php around line 146.
since you are passing only username thats y you are getting bonk

422

Woudnt you use strlen, string trim

sahotataran

ok heres is the solution:

Your user is $Last

do: $Last->Name = substr_replace($Last->Name, '...', 6);

and then you can use your line:
echo '< span class="LastCommentBy">'.sprintf(T('Most recent by %1$s'), UserAnchor($short)).'< /span>';


sahotataran

ok heres is the solution:
Your user is $Last
do: $Last->Name = substr_replace($Last->Name, '...', 6);

and then you can use your line:
echo '< span class="LastCommentBy">'.sprintf(T('Most recent by %1$s'), UserAnchor($Last)).'< /span>';


fh111

thanks for your suggestions. i quickly tried your code sahotaran but it does not work. what's shown in the end is "..." as username and it links to the profile of "..." instead of the real user (which obviously does not exist) .. a problem i did not think of until now

sahotataran

Did you make sure what is the user you are passing? $Last is ur user variable or some other variable?

fh111

$First and $Last are user variables, yes

sahotataran

I had given it a try on my local host and it seemed to work. I will give it a shot again

fh111

sahotataran said:
ok heres is the solution:
Your user is $Last
do: $Last->Name = substr_replace($Last->Name, '...', 6);

and then you can use your line:
echo '< span class="LastCommentBy">'.sprintf(T('Most recent by %1$s'), UserAnchor($Last)).'< /span>';


i gave this another try but i can't get it work. still just showing '...' instead of the abbreviated usernames ..

any suggestions/ideas on how to get this done?

peregrine

@fh111 said:

i am in applications/vanilla/views/discussions/helper_funtions.php >

this is for last - (do the same thing for first replacing Last with First).

 $short = $Last->Name;
  if (strlen($short) > 6 ) 
              $short = substr($short,0,6) . '...';
 $newanchor = '<a href="'.htmlspecialchars(Url('/profile/'.($NameUnique ? '' : "$UserID/").rawurlencode($Last->Name))).'"'.$CssClass.'>'.htmlspecialchars($short).'</a>';

 echo '<span class="LastCommentBy">'.sprintf(T('Most recent by %1$s'), $newanchor) .'</span>';

peregrine

left out $Userid - the above will work because it doesn't matter if id is blank but below with userid corrected.

 $UserID = $Last->UserID;
 $short = $Last->Name;
    if (strlen($short) > 6 )
    $short = substr($short,0,6) . '...';
    $newanchor = '<a href="'.htmlspecialchars(Url('/profile/'.$UserID . '/' .rawurlencode($Last->Name))).'"'.$CssClass.'>'.htmlspecialchars($short).'</a>';
    echo '<span class="LastCommentBy">'.sprintf(T('Most recent by %1$s'), $newanchor) .'</span>';

fh111

@peregrine i wish i could press like 100 more times thanks so much!!!! this is going to make such a big difference for our community, i believe

big thanks

peregrine

fh111 said:
@peregrine i wish i could press like 100 more times thanks so much!!!! this is going to make such a big difference for our community, i believe

big thanks

my pleasure.
I wish you could too(that is press like 100 times)! then I would surpass the supreme leader 422. .

fh111

let me prophecy this - you will for sure soon take over the lead with all the good help and support you give. you deserve it ..

422

Lol at supreme leader. Clicked like to both of you guys

peregrine

@supreme-leader I see your 1 and raise you 2

422

You should start a thread, the "like lottery"

peregrine

Well, I've seen what you've won from from having the highest points. . Is it really worth it.

I don't know if I could bear the load of all that fame and fortune. Mostly fortune - BTW did you get a big monetary increase from the developers . 1000 X 0 = 0!

I figured you should be able to ask one question of the developers for them to spend a bit of time to answer. - seems like that should have been the 1000 pt badge.

422

Uh huh, seemingly the only badges remaining are anniversary badges now.

fh111

lol, raining likes here : )

@peregrine

i am trying to do the same with the discussion title, i want to abbreviate it to something like 56 characters or so, this is what i have now, following your example with the usernames. what i am struggeling with is the last part, where the url is put together in the 'a href' part. i can-t figure it out. it gives me

/discussion//the discussion title/

instead of

/discussion/DiscussionID/discussion-slug

$DiscussionName = $Discussion->Name;
   if ($DiscussionName == '')
      $DiscussionName = T('Blank Discussion Topic');
$DiscussionNameShort = $Discussion->Name;
    if (strlen($DiscussionNameShort) > 56 ) 
$DiscussionNameShort = substr($DiscussionNameShort,0,56) . '...';
$ShortDiscussionNameAnchor = '<a href="'.htmlspecialchars(Url('/discussion/'. $DiscussionID . '/' .rawurlencode($Discussion->Name))).'"'.$CssClass.'>'.htmlspecialchars($DiscussionName).'</a>';