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Hi gang,

Some of our users have a long Website URL.  On the search result profile page it tends to STRRRRRRRETCH my template out past the desired borders.

I am looking for a way to truncate the Website URL for display purposes, or perhaps just replace it with a "Click here" or any solution to avoid the stretch!

http://soilscience.info/civicrm/profile?gid=1&search=1

See there, http://www.intermountainresources.com about 1/2 way down?

Sure would be nice if I could replace:

<a href="http://www.intermountainresources.com">http://www.intermountainresources.com</a>
with something more like...
<a href="http://www.intermountainresources.com">http://www.intermountain...</a>
or
<a href="http://www.intermountainresources.com">Click Here</a>
Ok so my first thought is "make a custom template", right?  Particularly this file: /CRM/Profile/Page/Listings.tpl   Ok, I searched the Forums here for all manner of things "custom template", "truncate variable", "substr" and found no solutions.  Next stop: the Smarty website.  I look at the documentation regarding variables, nothing.  I search their forums for some solution.  Nothing.  Been at an hour now, due diligence has been exhausted.  Help?

Here is the area of /CRM/Profile/Page/Listings.tpl that I need to change...but how?

{counter start=0 skip=1 print=false}
      {foreach from=$rows item=row }
      <tr id='rowid_{$row.contact_id}' class="{cycle values="odd-row,even-row"}">
      {foreach from=$row item=value name=directory}
        <td>{$value}</td>
      {/foreach}

In the meantime I have found a CSS based overflow: hidden solution ( more info: http://www.blakems.com/archives/000077.html ) but wondering if PHP and Smarty can accomplish the same thing more elegantly and with greater flexibility?  The CSS based solution is clunky and requires multiple custom templates depending on number of fields, without regard for varying widths, and ends up cutting off multiple fields' data, not just the Website URL.

Any help would be appreciated?

Thanks for finding that Truncate function!

Slight problem, Truncate wants to cut the variable in the middle, and only allows for word breaks, not link breaks.

For instance:
{$value|truncate:30:"...":true}
Would take the value:
<a href="http://www.mywebsite.com">http://www.mywebsite.com</a>
And truncate it to:
<a href="http://www.mywebsite.
Which will obviously break the HTML of the page.  I see no way with Smarty Truncate to make a distinction between the text and the link code itself, it's just all one big string to Smarty.  I took a look at 'strip_tags' and 'replace' and 'regex_replace'functions, which with a lot of effort might render a usable result, but at this point that seems very bloated comparted to just adding a substr() somewhere in your CiviCRM code.

So now I must hack a function within CiviCRM, yes?   Is this possible?  If so what file do I hack?  Is there an alternative?