characters hack in the title

Hello Everyone

hack : characters hack in the title .

hacked by All-the-vb

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if a title is more than 40 characters long, what will be taken is only the first number of letters (depends on the number you select), this makes you thread subjects look neater...



example:

if a subject had a thread of 25 characters , you set it to display 14 characters only...



VB land forums.... <-- this is how it will show instead of VB land forums blah blah blah blah

[Boofo]

How many queries does this add to each thread title?

[Boofo]

Here you go. This will do the same thing and you don't have to hack the db or worry about any extra queries.

PHP Code:

//start characters length hack
          $maxchars='60'; // thread title length
            $thread[title]=unhtmlspecialchars($thread[title]);
            if (strlen($thread[title]) > $maxchars) {
              $thread[title] = substr($thread[title], 0, $maxchars-2) . '...';
            }
//end characters length hack 


[hayl]

nice idea

[ghroob]

very nice
tahnk you

[mwhoob]

hi

good luck for you

and nice hack.

[redstaing0]

Thankes
How ican unstaill it beusoe ihave install it for test and now iwant remove it

[yxboom]

This hack doesn't work and I would like to uninstall it.

[Boofo]

Today at 03:08 PM yxboom said this in Post #17
This hack doesn't work and I would like to uninstall it.

If that doesn't work and you still want to be able to do it, use the code from this post. It works. I have been running it for a while now with no problems.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...068#post392068

[yxboom]

Boofo:

Thanks!

I install your code where the hack originally said to install in forumdisplay.php? And what about the inst.php file that I installed into the admin dir that is what I really want to get rid of cause I have this option in my admin panel and it is hard to understand...no offense to the author.

[edit to add] I would like to have the character limit around 30 characters. Where do I put this info?

[Boofo]

Change the number (60) in this line to whatever you want it to be set at.

PHP Code:

          $maxchars='60'; // thread title length 


Yes, put it in the same spot as his code. Let me know how it works for you.

As far as removing the hack goes, go into your Admin CP and run settings.php (like this: http://yoursite.com/forum/admin/settings.php) and you should find the two areas to delete in there. It will take care of the queries needed to delete those.