I created this simple Twig page on localhost on MAMP:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
tr.heading {
font-weight: bolder;
}
td {
border: 0.5px solid black;
padding: 0 0.5em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Automobiles</h2>
<table>
<tr class="heading">
<td>Vehicle</td>
<td>Model</td>
<td>Price</td>
</tr>
{% for d in data %}
<tr>
<td>{{ d.manufacturer|escape }}</td>
<td>{{ d.model|escape }}</td>
<td>{{ d.modelinfo|raw }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
</body>
</html>
and this is the code behind it:
<?php
// include and register Twig auto-loader
include 'Twig/Autoloader.php';
Twig_Autoloader::register();
// attempt a connection
try {
$dbh = new PDO('mysql:dbname=world;host=localhost', 'root', 'mypass');
} catch (PDOException $e) {
echo "Error: Could not connect. " . $e->getMessage();
}
// set error mode
$dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
// attempt some queries
try {
// execute SELECT query
// store each row as an object
$sql = "SELECT manufacturer, model, price FROM automobiles";
$sth = $dbh->query($sql);
while ($row = $sth->fetchObject()) {
$data[] = $row;
}
// close connection, clean up
unset($dbh);
// define template directory location
$loader = new Twig_Loader_Filesystem('templates');
// initialize Twig environment
$twig = new Twig_Environment($loader);
// load template
$template = $twig->loadTemplate('cars.html');
// set template variables
// render template
echo $template->render(array (
'data' => $data
));
} catch (Exception $e) {
die ('ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage());
}
?>
However, I am planning to truncate the text in the modelinfo field, I believe this can be done in MySQL with the select LEFT function, but how should I modify the query?
All help is appreciated!
You can truncate text in your Twig template like this:
That should return the first 10 characters in
d.modelinfo
.Take a look at the slice filter documentation page.
Twig has a truncate filter but you have to enable the text extensions by adding the following to your config.yml file.
Then in your template you can use the truncate filter and pass it an integer which denotes the length of the truncation.