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So I have a situation with some entries in field1 have only 200 words, while others have 500 words.
I want to change the text size based on the number of words or characters entered into field1.

So for example:
If an entry has <200 words then I want the page to render the type larger using a unique style tag.
If the entry has >200 then it renders the type smaller.

This lets me keep a fixed size for a block of text which has a fixed size side graphic, and not look like a ton of empty white space.

Is there an easy PHP snippet or is there a plug-in that returns the number of characters in an entry when I render the page?

Thanks!

artlab,

Try the following.

<?php 
$str = "This should be useful";
echo str_word_count($str);
?>

Moving to the CodeShare Corner as more appropriate there

So how would I adapt this as a conditional tag?

I have a widget on a page that displays a random entry from a channel. But those entries can get to long for the space allowed on some templates.

So I want some sort of search tag that limits the found set to entries with charCount < n.

Thanks

PS - seems like there out to be an EE tag for this. Doesn’t seem like it would be hard to do… well for me but not for EE programmers.

What I need is something like this… (pseudo code)

{exp:channel:entries channel="myChannel" search="chrCount'{myField}’< 300” limit=“1”} 

There must be other folks out there who have a similar need. Is there a function or.. something?

John’s example above give char count of a string but I’m not a PHP programmer so getting from that to some sort of function is beyond me.

Thanks