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Theo Kouzelis
Theo Kouzelis

Reputation: 3523

php function like wordpress the_content()

aIs there a function in php (like Wordpress's the_content()) that can limit a text string without breaking the html tags that may be within it?

//example:
echo substr ('<p>this <a>is</a> a test</p>', 0, 10);

//output: "<p>this <a"
//desired output: "<p>this </p>"

Upvotes: 3

Views: 423

Answers (1)

curtisdf
curtisdf

Reputation: 4210

No, there's not. But you could dig into Wordpress's source and see what the_content() does to achieve that. I haven't done so myself. Preserving HTML tags in the shorter version will be a tricky block of code.

What do you need this for? Are you just trying to obtain a preview of a longer HTML blob? In the past I've done this by using a combination of strip_tags() and substr(), and wrapping the stripped section of content in a new <p> tag.

Upvotes: 2

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