How to use strlen with the_title()?

What I am trying to do is this:

I have a 300px box and when the title is short or long (with the excerpt) it changes how it look… I’d like to set something so that when the title is short, it would add a <p> or
automatically.

Is it possible?

to get the title as a string, use

get_the_title()
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/get_the_title

or

the_title(”,”,false)
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/the_title

Thanks a lot!

Next step for me is to find a way to make it work correctly and put a if command so that it will add a <p> or
when it is shorter…

I’ll try to do it by myself… and I will ask if I can’t… Thanks

Damn it I really am bad at PHP… What is wrong with my code?

<?php

$sss = the_title('','',false);
if (strlen($sss)<43)
{echo '<p/>';
?>

Tried this as well… a failure

<?php

$sss = the_title('','',false);
$small= the_title('','<p/>');
$big = the_title();
if (strlen($sss)<43) return $small;
else return $big;

?>

Anybody can help? Thanks

Now it seems to work… `<?php
$sss = the_title(”,”,false);
if (strlen($sss)<43) the_title(”,'<p/>’);
else the_title();
?>
`

Thanks anyway

your code could look like this:

<?php

$sss = the_title('','',false);
$small = $sss . '<br />';
$big = $sss;
if (strlen($sss)<43) echo $small;
else echo $big;

?>

this $small= $sss . '<br />'; should add a linebreak to the string that contains the short title;
the '<p/>' is not a valid html or other code.

concatenate strings:
https://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php

return will not print anything, it is for use with functions:
https://php.net/manual/en/function.return.php

use echo to output things to the screen:
https://php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php

edit: just saw your last post;

well done, your code should work.
it is actually making good use of the wordpress template tag ‘the_title()’

you could just replace <p/> with <br /> to make it more valid html.