Formatting a URL link in Drupal using function l

Another nice function in Drupal. It's called function l.
It formats a URL link as an HTML anchor tag.
I know it looks really easy and simple, it's just nice to use it after doing that manually many times.

$option = array();
$option['attributes'] = array('title' => $label);
l($label_trimmed, $uri['path'], $option));// will output [a href="$uri-path" title="$label">[/a]

Truncating a string on a word boundary in Drupal

Typical task: "truncate a string only on a word boundary and add a some postfix to resulting string". Every developer did it many times, I'm sure. Here is a how Drupal solves it with it's api: function views_trim_text

define(MAX_LENGTH, 30);

$alter = array(
    'max_length' => MAX_LENGTH,
    'word_boundary' => TRUE,
    'ellipsis' => TRUE
);

$mystring = "truncate a string only on a word boundary and add a some postfix to resulting string";
$mystring = views_trim_text($alter, $mystring); //result is 'truncate a string only on a...'