Hiya,

Not sure if this is technically a bug or not but was wondering if the char_limiter(str [string], num [int]) function and perhaps even the word_limiter (haven’t tried that one yet) could be updated to not cut out HTML tags.

Someone was having a problem today with the plugin and I forgot about the TruncHTML plugin that silenz had made some time back which does indeed do the correct thing but I do use the char_limiter function a few times in plugins and was just wondering if it could be updated to allow for this sort of behavior?

If there is a better way of going around this then please feel free to move this thread and let me know but it would be nice to have this in the in-built functions for developers to be able to work with natively.

Thanks again for such a wonderful developer set of functions though

Best wishes,

Mark

[Mod edit: moved to Feature Request forum]

Oops sorry about that. Should have thought about putting this in the Feature Requests forum, thanks for moving it.

I just thought as the documentation said that you could place anything between the tags that it was a little misleading.

Best wishes,

Mark

Well, you can put anything you want.  I don’t see that the description of this plugin nor the function in the developers docs gives any indication that the tag will make assumptions about the content other than breaking the text into “words”.

These two functions are used for much more than output processing in the templates, and are required by the application for internal use as-is.  The plugins are merely gateways to these internal library functions, so modifying them is out of the question, though there wouldn’t be anything wrong with a separate plugin that is content aware.  Silenz’s TruncHTML does a fabulous job with that, in fact I use it myself, and I don’t particularly see a reason for a first party solution to be made.  What would that say to the development community if every well-executed add-on ended up having a first party implementation?

Yep I totally get your point about taking other peoples plugins and making them 1st party. I was probably looking at this a little wrong. No offense was intended to silenz in that way.

I suppose if ever I need a plugin to do something and need to use the char_limiter() function then I will just write it myself. I was just thinking out loud really, perhaps a little too loud?

Consider this closed, thanks for the explanation.

Best wishes,

Mark