Comments on: Battling ‘Line Spam’ Using PHP

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:04:28 +0000

I could be wrong, but... Using the above method, you will lose any characters that are in UTF-8 but not in the ISO-8859-1 character set. An example being the euro currency character. http://uk3.php.net/utf8_decode This could be fixed by using iconv() to convert between character sets iconv() and / or using the multi-byte safe string functions

By: Shahriat Hossain

Shahriat Hossain — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:13:07 +0000

G8 post! This is really helpful when I go with word wrapping.

By: MBzle

MBzle — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:28:14 +0000

@Aycan Gulez : true, but the problem is that there are a lot of annoying people out there. they can simply disable javascript and write the frustrating comments that have no meaning at all just to ruin the design.

@Meshach: glad you like it!

By: Meshach

Meshach — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:36:55 +0000

Hey, great tip, this will come in handy.

Thanks.

By: Aycan Gulez

Aycan Gulez — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:12:26 +0000

There’s also a client-side JavaScript solution:
http://www.midorijs.com/midori.html#shortenWords

By: MBzle

MBzle — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:20:46 +0000

Same concept. You will have to set a limit. Thus, the long URLs will also be chopped. But there's a way around URLs since very long URLs are not advisable when it comes to viewing purposes. There are many websites that shortens long URLs which you will realize is the common trend. Some of these sites are: - http://www.2lng.com/ - http://is.gd/ - http://tinyurl.com/ - http://cli.gs/ [ this also provides analytics, social media monitoring, and geotargeting ] - http://zi.ma/ - many more.

By: Japh

Japh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:50:20 +0000

Looks great! How do you handle long URLs with this method?