Keep knowlegbase titles looking good...

[robb3369]

After trying to keep three columns of knowledgebase categories looking good and somewhat aligned with their rather short titles and descriptions, I came across a nice smarty plugin to do just that. Its based on the wordpress plugin called widont. It basically prevents a sentence from wrapping and only having one word on the second line, so rather than you having to rewrite the sentence to look better, this modifier takes care of it.

 

Save this in your WHMCS/includes/smarty/plugins as modifier.widont.php:

<?php
/**
* Smarty plugin
* @package Smarty
* @subpackage plugins
*
* Type:     modifier<br>
* Name:     widont<br>
* Purpose:  add an   between the last two words of a paragraph to prevent orphan words (widows)
*           based on Shaun Inman's Widon't wordpress plugin
* @author   J Cornelius <smarty at jcornelius dot com>
* @param   string  $string  the string to manipulate
* @return  string           the string with an   added
*/
function smarty_modifier_widont($string = '')
{
  return preg_replace('|([^\s])\s+([^\s]+)\s*$|', '$1 $2', $string);
}
?>

And you can you it (for example) in the knowledgebase.tpl and knowledgebasecat.tpl files. Just change the occurrence of

{$kbcat.description}

to

{$kbcat.description|widont}

[BAJI26]

Any Screenies??

[robb3369]

Here is a link to the original WP plugin with a nice visual:

 

http://shauninman.com/archive/2006/08/22/widont_wordpress_plugin