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Jenz
Jenz

Reputation: 8369

Selecting substring for unicode data in PHP

I am developing a church website in which I am showing the history of the church as brief in the home page. The code I have done is shown below:

function getabout($msg)
{
    if (strlen($msg) > 750) 
    {
             $message=substr($msg, 0, strpos($msg, ' ', 750));
    } 
    else 
    {
        $message=$msg;
    }
    $message=$message."...";
    return $message;
}

This will work fine if the content is English. But when I tried with unicode language like malayalam, it is displaying characters less than 750.

How can I solve this problem. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 126

Answers (1)

Lorenz Meyer
Lorenz Meyer

Reputation: 19915

The strlen function is not suited for multibyte strings. Use multibyte functions instead.

In your case use mb_strlen and mb_strpos.

http://php.net/manual/fr/function.mb-strlen.php

Upvotes: 1

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