short.ShortStory

[scottdallas]

If you allow me, I could "re"make the plugin, to make short the fullstory (the advantadge of this, is that you only have to write one story, the full one, and then it gets "shriked" by the plugin) and post it here.

Of course, your name will be on it.

I suggest making your plugin, adding it to the 'Additional Downloads', describing what it does and why it's useful and seeing if anyone complains that you did In other words, your creativity will not go unnoticed.

[marcusmagalhaes]

Hi Fi-DD

the short story is even counting the numbers of images link (<img width="70" height="53" border="0" align="left" alt="" style="width: 70px; height: 53px;" src="/XXXX/XXX/XXX/XXX/XXX/ic_camara.gif" />), can we exclude the images link from the count?

[FI-DD]

Open the file and find this:

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preg_match('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', $output, $temp);

add below:

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$row['short'] = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/is", "", $row['short']);

P.S.: Please don't send me your questions via PM if you already posted it here.

[alven]

Super FI-DD nice solution so can we solve this with the plugin Auto short story that Creates short story from the full story?
Thanks in advance.

[FI-DD]

Come on, that's so easy. Did you even try to solve it yourself?

Simply use the code from above and replace $row['short'] with $short_story.

[alven]

Thanks a lot FI-DD.

[marcusmagalhaes]

not working... the image not show .... I want show image, but not count characters..

Open the file and find this:

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preg_match('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', $output, $temp);

add below:

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$row['short'] = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/is", "", $row['short']);

P.S.: Please don't send me your questions via PM if you already posted it here.

[FI-DD]

Try this:

Change this:

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preg_match('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', $output, $temp);
   $output = preg_replace('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', strlen($row['short']) > $temp[1] ? substr($row['short'], 0, $temp[1]).'...' : $row['short'], $output);

to this:

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preg_match('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', $output, $temp);
   $short_tmp = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/is", "", $row['short']);
   $output = preg_replace('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', strlen($short_tmp) > $temp[1] ? substr($row['short'], 0, $temp[1]).'...' : $row['short'], $output);

[marcusmagalhaes]

not work yet....

I'm try .... but..... not working..

thanks

[nolikewise]

when you edit e message it does not function but when you add a new one it is okay...

fi-dd have a look pls...

[FI-DD]

This plugin is called when the news are shown. Then it truncates the short story to the given number of characters.

So it shouldn't matter whether you add or edit an article.

In your case it could be a cache problem. Clear the cache and try again.

[Ramon]

FI-DD.. You might wanna update this plugin to

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<?php
/*
Plugin Name:   Short.ShortStory
Plugin URI:      http://cutenews.ru
Description:   Adds a {tag} to the templates to show n characters of the Short Story.
Version:      1.0
Author:         FI-DD
Author URI:   http://english.cutenews.ru/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2
*/

add_filter('news-entry', 'shortShortStory');
function shortShortStory($output) {
   global $row, $output;
   preg_match('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', $output, $temp);
      $short_tmp = strip_tags($row['short']);
      $row['short'] = $short_tmp;
   $output = preg_replace('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', strlen($row['short']) > $temp[1] ? substr($row['short'], 0, $temp[1]).'...' : $row['short'], $output);
   $output = run_filters('news-entry-content', $output);
   return $output;
}

add_filter('template-variables-active', 'shortShortStoryTemplate');
add_filter('template-variables-full', 'shortShortStoryTemplate');
function shortShortStoryTemplate($template) {
   $template['{sShortStory|n}'] = 'Shortens the Short Story to "My short story ..." (n = number of characters)';
   return $template;
}
?>

This way it gets rid of all HTML before counting. So it won't ever screw up your page

[FI-DD]

Done.

[Ramon]

Updated. There's a php function called strip_tags() who does the job even better

[Ramon]

lol when i started testing i figured i was'nt so bright as i thought i was. Needed to following changes to do what it is supposed to do.

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<?php
/*
Plugin Name:   Short.ShortStory
Plugin URI:      http://cutenews.ru
Description:   Adds a {tag} to the templates to show n characters of the Short Story.
Version:      1.0
Author:         FI-DD
Author URI:   http://english.cutenews.ru/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2
*/

add_filter('news-entry', 'shortShortStory');
function shortShortStory($output) {
   global $row, $output;
   preg_match('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', $output, $temp);
   
      $short_tmp                         = strip_tags($row['short']);
      $long                              = strlen($row['short']);
      $short                              = strlen($short_tmp);
      $add                              = $long - $short;
     $temp[1]                           = $temp[1] + $add;

   $output                              = preg_replace('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', strlen($row['short']) > $temp[1] ? substr($row['short'], 0, $temp[1]).'...' : $row['short'], $output);
   $output                            = run_filters('news-entry-content', $output);
   return $output;
}

add_filter('template-variables-active', 'shortShortStoryTemplate');
add_filter('template-variables-full', 'shortShortStoryTemplate');
function shortShortStoryTemplate($template) {
   $template['{sShortStory|n}']            = 'Shortens the Short Story to "My short story ..." (n = number of characters)';
   return $template;
}
?>

This way it filters html from counting. But since you are nog showing the stripped version on your website you want to add to difference between the length of the stripped content with the non-stripped content. That way it wont break down in the middle of html tag.

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Edit: Figured it does need more changes.. It wont break down in the middle of a html tag, but it can still break down in the content of an html tag. Which could cause tags not to be closed. I need to change it further lol


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Edit: Found it

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<?php
/*
Plugin Name:   Short.ShortStory
Plugin URI:      http://cutenews.ru
Description:   Adds a {tag} to the templates to show n characters of the Short Story.
Version:      1.0
Author:         FI-DD
Author URI:   http://english.cutenews.ru/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2
*/

add_filter('news-entry', 'shortShortStory');

function strip_tags_content($text, $tags = '', $invert = FALSE) {
  preg_match_all('/<(.+?)[\s]*\/?[\s]*>/si', trim($tags), $tags);
  $tags = array_unique($tags[1]);
   
  if(is_array($tags) AND count($tags) > 0) {
    if($invert == FALSE) {
      return preg_replace('@<(?!(?:'. implode('|', $tags) .')\b)(\w+)\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);
    }
    else {
      return preg_replace('@<('. implode('|', $tags) .')\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);
    }
  }
  elseif($invert == FALSE) {
    return preg_replace('@<(\w+)\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);
  }
  return $text;
}
function shortShortStory($output) {
   global $row, $output;
   preg_match('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', $output, $temp);
   
      $short_tmp                         = strip_tags_content($row['short']);
      $long                              = strlen($row['short']);
      $short                              = strlen($short_tmp);
      $add                              = $long - $short;
     $temp[1]                           = $temp[1] + $add;

   $output                              = preg_replace('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', strlen($row['short']) > $temp[1] ? substr($row['short'], 0, $temp[1]).'...' : $row['short'], $output);
   $output                            = run_filters('news-entry-content', $output);
   return $output;
}

add_filter('template-variables-active', 'shortShortStoryTemplate');
add_filter('template-variables-full', 'shortShortStoryTemplate');
function shortShortStoryTemplate($template) {
   $template['{sShortStory|n}']            = 'Shortens the Short Story to "My short story ..." (n = number of characters)';
   return $template;
}
?>

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Edit: Yet another edit needed to make it better. Not only HTML had to be taken care of. Also BB-code needed to be filtered for those who use quick_tags.\

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<?php
/*
Plugin Name:   Short.ShortStory
Plugin URI:      http://cutenews.ru
Description:   Adds a {tag} to the templates to show n characters of the Short Story.
Version:      1.0
Author:         FI-DD
Author URI:   http://english.cutenews.ru/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2
*/

add_filter('news-entry', 'shortShortStory');

function strip_tags_content($text) {
    $htmlstrip = preg_replace('@<(\w+)\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text); // Strips the HTML
    $bbstrip = preg_replace('#\[(.*?)\](.*?)\[/(.*?)\]#si', '', $htmlstrip); // Strips BBCode, you need to strip it cause bbcode will turn into html and therefore - if not taken care of - could potentially screw your page up
    return $bbstrip;
}

function shortShortStory($output) {
   global $row, $output;
   preg_match('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', $output, $temp);
   
      $short_tmp                         = strip_tags_content($row['short']);
      $long                              = strlen($row['short']);
      $short                              = strlen($short_tmp);
      $add                              = $long - $short;
   $temp[1]                           = $temp[1] + $add;

   $output                              = preg_replace('/{sShortStory\|(\d+)}/i', strlen($row['short']) > $temp[1] ? substr($row['short'], 0, $temp[1]).'...' : $row['short'], $output);
   $output                            = run_filters('news-entry-content', $output);
   return $output;
}

add_filter('template-variables-active', 'shortShortStoryTemplate');
add_filter('template-variables-full', 'shortShortStoryTemplate');

function shortShortStoryTemplate($template) {
   $template['{sShortStory|n}']            = 'Shortens the Short Story to "My short story ..." (n = number of characters)';
   return $template;
}

/* NOTE:    Function is still incomplete. {nl} should somehow be accounted for. If you got multiple
         paragraphs you use more space then when you don't. Somehow that should matter, but it does'nt yet.
         
         To make it complete it should count the number of {nl} in $bbstrip and then multiply that amount
         with a - yet to determine - agreeable amount of charactars(depends on the amount of charactars that fit in one line).
         
         That amount needs to be deducted from $temp[1].
         
         LOL the only person who probably understands what i'm saying is FI-DD, so cheers mate :P I can't figure it out
         she is al yours.
*/
?>

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Beginning to look like this function won't ever work flawless. If your tags are stripped outside the text that is truncated, they will still add to your $temp[1] which will make the truncated text longer then it should be. It should only count the amount of characters stripped in the first $temp[1] characters.