View Theming

To quote a famous chef, f...k me.. what a mare this has been, and really I am quite sorry for not fully testing before posting, its not really help when its no help at all...

To clarify: The other night I tested this not with $body, but only with a CCK field, because that is a view I had immediatly availble and I made the assumption that body would work as per normal, but it does not - the trim_it function is crapping out somewhere and I dont really have time to debug it right now - but, all is not lost, I recalled seeing this function on lullabots site so I gave it a crack and to cut a very long story short, it works with $body.

so, this new word_trim function goes in template.php as per normal, and you can use in place of trim_it for both if you want.

/**
* Trim a string to a given number of words
*
* @param $string
*   the original string
* @param $count
*   the word count
* @param $ellipsis
*   TRUE to add "..."
*   or use a string to define other character
* @param $node
*   provide the node and we'll set the $node->
*  
* @return
*   trimmed string with ellipsis added if it was truncated
*/
function word_trim($string, $count, $ellipsis = FALSE){
  $words = explode(' ', $string);
  if (count($words) > $count){
    array_splice($words, $count);
    $string = implode(' ', $words);
    if (is_string($ellipsis)){
      $string .= $ellipsis;
    }
    elseif ($ellipsis){
      $string .= '…';
    }
  }
  return $string;
}

Then in the views template, something like this:

<h3 class="view-data-title">
  <?php
    $title = word_trim($title, 3, TRUE);
    $trimmed_title = str_replace('REPLACE', $title, $link);
    print $trimmed_title;
  ?>
</h3>

<div class="view-data-body">
  <?php $string = word_trim($body, 20, TRUE); print $string; ?>
</div>

TRUE = show ellipsis (...)

If you dont want ellipes then leave it blank (and remove the preceeding comma)or use FALSE.