how to show project name in limited characters in Laravel? - php

Question

I need show My laravel application project name with limited characters. that means as an example consider some project name contains more than 10 letters, then I need only show 10 characters.
My project name create controller is
public function store(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, [
'name' => 'required|min:3',
'notes' => 'required|min:10',
'color' => 'required',
'group' => 'required',
'status' => 'required'
]);
$project = new Project;
$project->project_name = $request->input('name');
$project->project_status = $request->input('status');
$project->group = $request->input('group');
$project->color = $request->input('color');
$project->project_notes = $request->input('notes');
$project->user_id = Auth::user()->id;
$duplicate = Project::where('project_name',$project->project_name)->first();
if($duplicate)
{
return redirect()->route('projects.index')->with('warning','Title already exists');
}
$project->save();
return redirect()->route('projects.index')->with('info','Your Project has been created successfully');
and project name showing blade file is
<div class="row">
#foreach ($projects as $proj)
<div class="col-md-3" style="border:3px solid {!!$proj->color!!};margin-left:5px;margin-bottom: 5px;">
<h2>{!! $proj->project_name !!}</h2>
then how can I show only 10 charactors in My blade file?

Answer 1

You can create a public function in Project model to do this:
public function getShortName($maxLen = 10)
{
if ($this->project_name === null) {
return '-';
}
if (strlen($this->project_name) <= $maxLen) {
return $this->project_name;
}
return substr($this->project_name, 0, $maxLen);
}
Then you can call it in your Blade file like this:
{{ $proj->getShortName() }}
If you want to set another limit to the maximum length, just pass it as a parameter:
{{ $proj->getShortName(20) }}