shorten string ...

[Anon]

I want to shorten a string to a certain number of characters. If the string contains any html-tags at the end I get a problem cause the function may destroy the code and the result look like:

"this is a <a href=\"http://www.phpbuilder.com/\">test</a> - hope you like it" ==> "this is a <a href=\"http://www.phpbu"

How can I fix this without using strip_tags?

Daniel

[carlosa69]

I'm not sure that you made your question clear: are you asking how to not include html tags in your character count?

[Anon]

I have a news script and I want to display only the first 300 character continued with a "read more" link. If I cut off the string at character 300 it is possible that I destroy a html tag with this. For example:

original string:
"This is a <a href=\"http://www.phpbuilder.com/\">link</a> and this is another <a href=\"http://www.phpbuilder.com/\">one</a>"

shorten string:
"This is a <a href=\"http://www.phpbuilder.com/\">link</a> and this is another <a href=\"http://ww"

Result: String is shorten but the html tag (<a href="..) is destroyed. So ... is there any possibility to shorten a string without destroying any html tags?

Daniel