[SOLVED] Trim output text when using substitution

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12 years 3 months ago - 12 years 2 months ago #212935 by dotcom22

[SOLVED] Trim output text when using substitution was created by dotcom22

hello

I would like partially output the text present inside a specific textarea field and I wondering if is possible. On your substitution tutorial page I don't see anything who seem to allow this.

My goal was to output only the first 200 character instead to output the full textarea content.

I use Joomla 3.3.6 - CB 2.0.4 - CBSubs 4 - Several Incubator plugins

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12 years 3 months ago #212940 by krileon

Replied by krileon on topic Re: Trim output text when using substitution

Possible with CB Query Field (query field can use SQL functions such as SUBSTR); aside from that nope it's not possible.

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12 years 2 months ago - 12 years 2 months ago #214849 by dotcom22

Replied by dotcom22 on topic Re: Trim output text when using substitution

Well thank for pointing to me on the right direction :cheer:

For anybody who need to do the same I used the follow query:

Code:

SELECT SUBSTRING(`cb_presentation`,1,200) FROM `jos_comprofiler` WHERE `user_id` = '[user_id]'

This work well and now only the first 200 characters are "extracted" from by textarea.

cheers

I use Joomla 3.3.6 - CB 2.0.4 - CBSubs 4 - Several Incubator plugins

Last edit: 12 years 2 months ago by dotcom22.

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