Portal subject - max characters

[leefish]

I have been trying to set the maximum displayed characters in a portal announcement subject using the my_strlen function from mybb. Here is my code:

PHP Code:

if(my_strlen($announcement['subject']) > 25) { $announcement['subject'] = my_substr($announcement['subject'], 0, 25) . "..."; } $announcement['subject'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($parser->parse_badwords($announcement['subject']));

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I just added it into the portal php like so:

PHP Code:

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$announcements = ''; $query = $db->query(" SELECT t.*, t.username AS threadusername, u.username, u.avatar FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."threads t LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_PREFIX."users u ON (u.uid = t.uid) WHERE fid IN (".$mybb->settings['portal_announcementsfid'].") AND t.visible='1' AND t.closed NOT LIKE 'moved|%' ORDER BY t.dateline DESC LIMIT ".(($page-1)*$perpage).", ".$perpage ); while($announcement = $db->fetch_array($query)) { $announcement['message'] = $posts[$announcement['tid']]['message']; $announcement['pid'] = $posts[$announcement['tid']]['pid']; $announcement['smilieoff'] = $posts[$announcement['tid']]['smilieoff']; $announcement['threadlink'] = get_thread_link($announcement['tid']); if($announcement['uid'] == 0) { $profilelink = htmlspecialchars_uni($announcement['threadusername']); } else { $profilelink = build_profile_link($announcement['username'], $announcement['uid']); } if(!$announcement['username']) { $announcement['username'] = $announcement['threadusername']; } if(my_strlen($announcement['subject']) > 25) { $announcement['subject'] = my_substr($announcement['subject'], 0, 25) . "..."; } $announcement['subject'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($parser->parse_badwords($announcement['subject'])); if($announcement['icon'] > 0 && $icon_cache[$announcement['icon']]) { $icon = $icon_cache[$announcement['icon']]; $icon = "<img src=\"{$icon['path']}\" alt=\"{$icon['name']}\" />"; } else { $icon = "&nbsp;"; } etc etc, rest of portal.php as standard.

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It's having no result and I don't quite see why. Can anyone advise where I am going wrong?