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truncHTML not working

fxidesigns

Posted: 27 November 2008 02:57 PM

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I have installed the latest version of truncHTML and am using the following call;

{exp:trunchtml chars=“300” ending=”<a >read on</a>”}
{body}
{/exp:trunchtml} 

However when I change the chars= setting I get no difference in the amount of characters returned. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Joe

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Derek Jones

Posted: 27 November 2008 03:10 PM

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Do you have curly quotes in your template like you do in your sample above?

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fxidesigns

Posted: 27 November 2008 03:42 PM

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What’s curly quotes? I am using the quotes that are on the shift ’ key… like this “

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fxidesigns

Posted: 27 November 2008 03:46 PM

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Ok… I used double quotes as in ” however when I changed to single quotes like ’ it seems to work. Thats weird… for every other EE expression I use double quotes.

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Derek Jones

Posted: 27 November 2008 03:55 PM

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Did you cut and paste this from somewhere? “ and ” are quite different from " and would not result from typing them with the double-quote key on your keyboard.

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fxidesigns

Posted: 27 November 2008 04:25 PM

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Yep that was it… Actually I copy & pasted from the sample code here on the plugin part of the EE website. I wonder why the quotes are different… anyway its all good now!!

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silenz

Posted: 28 November 2008 08:21 AM

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Glad to hear it’s working now.

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