/**
* Shorten a string to a specific length by truncating or abbreviating the string
*
* QuickBooks often uses unusually short field lengths. This function can
* be used to try to make long strings fit cleanly into the QuickBooks
* fields. It tries to do a few things:
* - Convert long words to shorter abbreviations
* - Remove non-ASCII characters
* - Truncate the string if it's still too long
*
* @param string $value The string to shorten
* @param integer $length The max. length the string should be
* @param boolean $with_abbrevs Whether or not to abbreviate some long words to shorten the string
* @return string The shortened string
*/
protected static function _castTruncate($value, $length, $with_abbrevs = true)
{
$value = QuickBooks_Cast::_castCharset($value);
if (strlen($value) > $length) {
if ($with_abbrevs) {
$value = QuickBooks_Cast::_castAbbreviations($value);
}
if (strlen($value) > $length) {
$value = substr($value, 0, $length);
}
}
return utf8_encode($value);
}
/**
* Shorten a string to a specific length by truncating or abbreviating the string
*
* QuickBooks often uses unusually short field lengths. This function can
* be used to try to make long strings fit cleanly into the QuickBooks
* fields. It tries to do a few things:
* - Convert long words to shorter abbreviations
* - Remove non-ASCII characters
* - Truncate the string if it's still too long
*
* @param string $value The string to shorten
* @param integer $length The max. length the string should be
* @param boolean $with_abbrevs Whether or not to abbreviate some long words to shorten the string
* @return string The shortened string
*/
protected static function _castTruncate($value, $length, $with_abbrevs = true)
{
//$value = QuickBooks_Cast::_castCharset($value);
if (strlen($value) > $length) {
if ($with_abbrevs) {
$value = QuickBooks_Cast::_castAbbreviations($value);
}
if (strlen($value) > $length) {
$value = substr($value, 0, $length);
}
}
// This breaks the UTF8 encoding
//return utf8_encode($value);
// Just return the data
return $value;
}