How to Limit Character Length in BuddyPress Function Output WordPress

John Cotton comments:

I just had a quick step through the code to see if there was a hook that had field type, so that you could adjust the length according to what was being requested, but I can't see one.

So the alternative would be to construct your own wrapper function, a bit like this:


function filtered_profile_data( $args ) {

$data = bp_get_member_profile_data( $args );

$defaults = array(
'field' => false, // Field name
'user_id' => $user_id
);

$r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
extract( $r, EXTR_SKIP );

switch($field) {
case 'Organization':
$len = 50;
break;
default:
$len = 100;
break;
}

echo substr( $data, 0, $len);
}



Your code would then become:


<?php

filtered_profile_data( 'field=Organization' );

filtered_profile_data( 'field=Brief Biography' );

?>


Of course, you could make the $len logic much more complicated if you wanted...

Christopher comments:

Hi John,

Oops... I forgot to change that to word count, not character, with a trailing ellipsis.
(Just looked at my example and someone was playing with bras, which was supposed to be brash humour, but got cut off. Better stick to words.)

Code seems to be working though.

John Cotton comments:

Words rather than characters?

Well, assuming you are going with the wrapper function you could do this at the end:


$words = array_slice( explode( ' ', $data), 0, $len );
echo implode( ' ', $words );


John Cotton comments:

PS - Obviously you need to make $len the number of words, not the number of characters....

Christopher comments:

Yeah, words not characters. Works perfectly for restricting the number of words. The weird thing is that it restrict Brief Biography by words, but the other by characters. It also shows five characters (first field), followed by five words (first field), followed by ten words (second field).

I added it like this, so maybe I just misunderstood something:

function filtered_profile_data( $args ) {

$data = bp_get_member_profile_data( $args );

$defaults = array(
'field' => false, // Field name
'user_id' => $user_id
);

$r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
extract( $r, EXTR_SKIP );

switch($field) {
case 'Brief Biography':
$len = 10;
break;
default:
$len = 5;
break;
}

echo substr( $data, 0, $len);

$words = array_slice( explode( ' ', $data), 0, $len );

echo implode( ' ', $words );
}


Christopher comments:

Perfect.