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I initially posted my question as a reply to this post, but I figured it was unlikely to be seen there any time soon. Hence the new one here.

As laid out in the post mentioned above, I make use of

<?php echo substr('{linkurl}', 0, 30) , '...'; ?>

instead of char_limit.

I’m using this code snippet in a template of an image gallery (as the char_limit didn’t limit enough). On that page the thumbs of one category are displayed. Works perfectly for all categories except two..?
When I try to navigate to those categories, they give me these errors:

Category 1: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/user/website.com/eebase/core/core.functions.php(634) : eval()‘d code on line 14

Category 2: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/user/website.com/eebase/core/core.functions.php(634) : eval()‘d code on line 16

Why would this work for the rest of the categories and not for these? Template codes are exactly the same…
The pertinent part:

{exp:gallery:entries gallery="mainalbum" orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic="off" category="{segment_4}" }
   <div class="breadcrumb"> <a href="http://{path=/gallery/index}"><b>Home</b></a> ‹ <a href="http://{path=/gallery/catoverview}"><b>Galleries</b></a> ‹ {category}</div>
    {entries}
    {row}
<div class="thumbthumbs">
    <a href="http://{image_url}" class="lightbox">http://www.website.com/utilities/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src={image_url}&w=150&h=150&zc=1&q=100</a> <strong><?php echo substr('{title}', 0, 20) , '...'; ?></strong> </div>
    {/row}
    {/entries}</div>
    {/exp:gallery:entries} 
         </div></div>

Char_limit does not give me any errors by the way. (Not sure if that helps to narrow it down any.)

I’m running version 1.6.9, build 20100430

[Mod Edit: Moved to the How to forum]

Hi Lanitha,

Firstly, can you please verify that you are in fact using 1.6.9 build 20100430? If you upgraded the site from an earlier version did you copy the system/core files from the download zip to your server?

Cheers

Greg

Hi Greg!
Yes and yes. I saw the errors first while still on 1.6.8, so first thing I did was update to the latest version and build, all according to the userguide. I did this yesterday.
This didn’t change anything.
Although the errors are slightly different… Respectively:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/user/website.com/eeroot/core/core.functions.php(653) : eval()'d code on line 15

and

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/user/website.com/eeroot/core/core.functions.php(653) : eval()'d code on line 18

I guess updating did make a difference somehow after all? 😉

Lanitha,

Ok so obviously an image title throwing it off in either of those categories. Anything unusual about any of the titles in those categories? Maybe single quotes, odd character etc?

Can you create a blank template please and only add the following. Please add the category ids of the ones that were throwing the error.Can you then post the link to that template here please?

{exp:gallery:entries gallery="mainalbum" dynamic="off" category="4|5" }
<ul>
    {entries}
    {row}
<li>{title}</li>
    {/row}
    {/entries}
</ul>
    {/exp:gallery:entries}

Hey John,

You are right. I thought I’d carefully checked the titles for oddities (‘cause that was one of my first thoughts, too), but I obviously missed the obvious: Those categories have images with titles that have single quotes.
Is there a way around that? I don’t really want to ask the website owner to omit single quotes in titles…

The template you asked for can be found here (removed).
As you can see it does include one title with a single quote, but not two others. One is missing from the same category and one from the other troublesome one. In fact, those aren’t the only entries missing from those two categories… The total entries of those two categories should be 41, and not just the 9 it actually shows on that template..?

Those categories have images with titles that have single quotes. Is there a way around that?

Use double quotes yourself instead of single ones:

<?php echo substr("{linkurl}", 0, 30) , "..."; ?>

Thanks for your input, Ingmar.
That does work.
However (and I realize my amateurism is hanging out), is it correct to assume that one should now avoid using double quotes in the title?

That is correct, unless you escape or pre-process them somehow. It’s just how PHP works, I am afraid.

for a reliable solution where various characters in filenames don’t break the page, I’d suggest using PHP’s output buffering functions:

<?php
    ob_start();
    ?>{linkurl}<?php
    $linkurl = ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();
    echo substr($linkurl, 0, 30) , '...';
?>

Thanks to Ingmar for confirming.
Thanks to ender for that snippet. I ended up implementing that and it seems to work perfectly!

Thanks to all other helping hands, as well! 😉