Hi There,

I want to limit the characters on a title:
When i run a substr( bp_the_topic_title(),0,50) it doesnt strip the characters. I think because the function bp_the_topic_title() echo’s it straight away.

Is there a fix to do this?

[@svelsas Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Anyone?

[@eleventwenty2 Member 14 years, 1 month ago]

bump on this.

[@eleventwenty2 Member 14 years, 1 month ago]

Here’s what I came up with and it works the way I need it..

I added the following function to the “buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-templatetags.php” file.

`function bp_the_short_topic_title() {
echo bp_get_the_short_topic_title();
}
function bp_get_the_short_topic_title() {
global $forum_template;
$topic = $forum_template->topic->topic_title;

if (strlen($topic) > 35)
{
$output = substr($topic, 0, 35).’…’;
}
else
{
$output = $forum_template->topic->topic_title;
}
return apply_filters( ‘bp_get_the_topic_title’, stripslashes($output) );
}`

then just replaced bp_the_topic_title() with bp_the_short_topic_title() where I needed it shortened.