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Francesco
Francesco

Reputation: 397

Display Joomla Intro Article without <p> tag

I'm customizing the layout of category blog view for my template and I need to display the article intro text without the

tag. In my custom file "blogalternativelayout_item.php", I use:

<?php echo substr(($this->item->introtext),0,75); ?>

Anyway this renders the introtext as 

<p>Lorem ipsum etc...</p>

How could I do to remove the paragraph tags? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 447

Answers (3)

Francesco
Francesco

Reputation: 397

Thanks to both suggestions. I've created this code and working:

<?php
$desctrunc = substr(($this->item->introtext),0,75);
$desc = strip_tags($desctrunc);
echo $desc . '...';
?>

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Amit Ray
Amit Ray

Reputation: 3485

You have to use regex to achieve this task

<?php 

$text = substr(($this->item->introtext),0,75); 
//get the contents inside <p> tag using this regex
$result = preg_replace('/<p\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/p>/i', '', $text);

echo $result;

?>

Upvotes: 1

Shabab
Shabab

Reputation: 66

You can use php strip_tags() function. eg; 

echo strip_tags($this->item->introtext);

the code above will strip all the html tags in introtext.

If you want to strip tags except tags, then you can put it like this:

echo strip_tags($this->item->introtext, "<a>");

Upvotes: 2

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