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Camaliet
Camaliet

Reputation: 59

As only display text with substr()

On the basis of data I have saved an article that comes with HTML as <br>, <table> ... etc. ....

example :

<tr>
    <td style="width:50%;text-align:left;">Temas nuevos - Comunidad</td>
    <td class="blocksubhead" style="width:50%;text-align:left;">Temas actualizados - Comunidad Temas actualizados - Comunidad</td>
</tr>

What I want is displayed on another screen a summary of the article using substr (), my problem is I can not print what I want, and that prints the html code eta first.

Example: echo substr($row["news"], 0, 20);

It is printing the first 20 characters, it only show at browser:

<td style="width:50%;text-align:l<td/>

What I want is, it only show the text and discard the html code it has

Upvotes: 0

Views: 791

Answers (2)

Murad Hasan
Murad Hasan

Reputation: 9583

The strip_tags() function strips a string from HTML, XML, and PHP tags.

//remove the html from the string.
$row["news"] = strip_tags($row["news"]);

//getting the first 20 character from the string and display as output.
echo substr($row["news"], 0, 20);

Upvotes: 0

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 8616

Use strip_tags() to strip html etc from the string...

So: echo substr(strip_tags($row["news"]), 0, 20);

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

You could also do it using preg_replace() to match and replace anything that looks like a tag :)

Upvotes: 1

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