Shortening the topic name in Recent Topics SSI

[layne]

I'm using an edited recent topics SSI that pulls the topics by board, but it shows the whole topic title, versus the normal recent topics SSI which shows a shortened version of the title ending in "..."

How do i reproduce this effect in my current SSI? Here's my current code:

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<p align="left" class="indented"><?php global $context, $scripturl, $settings, $txt;
$bullet = '<img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/TPdivider.gif" alt="" border="0" style="margin:0 2px 0 0;" />';

$result=ssi_recentTopics_Include(3,array(12),'return');

foreach($result as $my){
 echo "$bullet";
 echo '<span class="smalltext">'.$my['link'];

 // is this topic new? (assume they are logged in)
if (!$my['new'] && $context['user']['is_logged'])
       echo ' <a href="', $scripturl, '?topic=', $my['topic'], '.from', $my['new_from'], '#new"><img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/', $context['user']['language'], '/new.gif" alt="', $txt[302], '" border="0" /></a>';
echo '<br />';
echo ' last post by <b>', $my['poster']['link'];
echo '</b><br />';
//echo ' last post ', $my['time'];
echo '<br />';//

}
echo '</span>';?></p>

[IchBin]

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[layne]

yeah, i can't figure out how to use the "short_subject" string in my code.  i tried replacing "topic" but other than that i can't figure it out.

[G6Cad]

Here is some reading, but i think you will actually get all the answers in this topic.
I know it-s a long thread, but if you start fronm the last post and read your way to the first, i know tou will have what you look for.
http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=596.0

[IchBin]

Change this line:

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echo '<span class="smalltext">'.$my['link'];

To this line:

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echo '<span class="smalltext"><a href="', $scripturl,'?topic=',$my['topic'], '.from', $my['new_from'], '#new">', shorten_subject($my['subject'], 8), '</a>';

You can change the number "8" to a lower or higher number depending on how much text you want to show in the link.

[layne]

thanks, man. exactly what i needed. i'm still not sure i understand what i did, but i know it worked, and in the end that'ss all that matters.  didn't mean to cross post, by the way. the two threads converged, but i thought they were different enough at the start. sorry bout that...