Search Engine Help

[BulldogGC]

I've created a functional search engine.
It's for an articles database.

And I only show the first 300 characters of the main body content.
And if there is a HTML tag in-between the 300 it shows for example <font color=...

And cuts if off right in the middle of that.
What I want it to do somehow is to avoid the HTML tags and not count them in the character count.

[shawon22]

use strip_tags() function, it returns a string with all html tags stripped