Speech-mark turns to " in result of a query

[sparklywater]

I have this function which trims the thread-title of the latest posts after a query fetches the latest posts. Everything works well except I've noticed that if this query trims the thread-title at a speech-mark ( " ) , instead of displaying the speech-mark in the result it shows &quo... instead. But if I increase the cut-off by a few more characters then the speech mark is displayed correctly. How can I make the query display the speech-mark without it displaying '&quot...' at certain lengths of cutoff?

Here is the query to trim the thread-title:

PHP Code:

if (strlen($row['thread_title']) > $vbulletin->options['latest_trimplusthree'])
       {
        // adds the cutoff ... with substr
        $row['thread_title'] = substr($row['thread_title'], 0, $vbulletin->options['latest_trim']) . '...';
       } 


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someone help please...

[sparklywater]

has this been posted in the right section?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Try using multibyte functions instead. So mb_substr() instead of substr(), and mb_strlen() instead of strlen().

[sparklywater]

Thanks for your reply, I've just tried that but it still shows &quo... in the results.

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This is the query which fetches the latest posts:

PHP Code:

// query to get the last posts
    $query = $vbulletin->db->query_read_slave("
        SELECT
            post.postid, post.pagetext as pagetext, post.userid, post.username, post.dateline AS date,
            thread.forumid, thread.title as thread_title, thread.threadid,
            forum.forumid, forum.title as forum_title, thread.replycount as replies, thread.views as views
        FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread
        INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post AS post on (post.postid = thread.lastpostid)
        INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum AS forum on (thread.forumid = forum.forumid)
        WHERE post.visible = '1' AND thread.visible = '1' AND open = '1' AND $platest_and AND $platest_and_1
        ORDER BY postid DESC
        LIMIT $plimit"
    ); 


[Opserty]

Try the fetch_trimmed_title vBulletin function instead.

[sparklywater]

Originally Posted by Opserty

Try the fetch_trimmed_title vBulletin function instead.

Thanks but I have no idea how to use that function.

[Opserty]

Did you click the link and read the function description?

[sparklywater]

Originally Posted by Opserty

Did you click the link and read the function description?

How can I make that function work with this query:

PHP Code:

// query to get the last posts
    $query = $vbulletin->db->query_read_slave("
        SELECT
            post.postid, post.pagetext as pagetext, post.userid, post.username, post.dateline AS date,
            thread.forumid, thread.title as thread_title, thread.threadid,
            forum.forumid, forum.title as forum_title, thread.replycount as replies, thread.views as views
        FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread
        INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post AS post on (post.postid = thread.lastpostid)
        INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum AS forum on (thread.forumid = forum.forumid)
        WHERE post.visible = '1' AND thread.visible = '1' AND open = '1' AND $platest_and AND $platest_and_1
        ORDER BY postid DESC
        LIMIT $plimit"
    ); 


[Opserty]

You don't use it in the query... you do it to the title you've fetched.

[sparklywater]

The query has the following line which fetches the thread title, doesn't it?

PHP Code:

 SELECT
          thread.title as thread_title 


I have to use that query to get the latest posts on the forum, but the part I'm stuck on is using a function to correctly trim the thread-title of these latest posts.

If I use the function you linked to, I would have to make it work with this query which fetches the actual posts, is that not correct? The title itself isn't enough because I need the thread-titles to link to the latest posts.