From a0a3241d1c42d138a588478f4199d3cdcd887d75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Lippmann <eric.lippmann@netways.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:20:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] lib: Add String::ellipsis()

---
 library/Icinga/Util/String.php | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/library/Icinga/Util/String.php b/library/Icinga/Util/String.php
index 248ab0d34..69fb26927 100644
--- a/library/Icinga/Util/String.php
+++ b/library/Icinga/Util/String.php
@@ -36,4 +36,22 @@ class String
     {
         return str_replace(' ', '', ucwords(str_replace($separator, ' ', strtolower($name))));
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Add ellipsis when a string is longer than max length
+     *
+     * @param   string  $string
+     * @param   int     $maxLength
+     * @param   string  $ellipsis
+     *
+     * @return  string
+     */
+    public static function ellipsis($string, $maxLength, $ellipsis = '...')
+    {
+        if (strlen($string) > $maxLength) {
+            return substr($string, 0, $maxLength - strlen($ellipsis)) . $ellipsis;
+        }
+
+        return $string;
+    }
 }