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Keverw
Keverw

Reputation: 3786

Blog post preview shows <font if cuts off the rest after it

    if (strlen($body) > 2000)
                    {
                        $body = substr($body, 0, 2000);
                        $body .= '...<a href="/blogpost/' . $id . '/' . urlencode($title) .'">Read More</a>

';
                }

So say i have <font size="5"> when it cuts it off, its like "And he was like<font...Read More". It shows the word <font on the screen for the end user to read, because it didn't get a chance to close because it was truncated. Is there a fix or work around for this? Its kinda annoying to be like this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 303

Answers (2)

Poonam Bhatt
Poonam Bhatt

Reputation: 10302

Use :

strip_tags()

...It will help.

Upvotes: 0

Shad
Shad

Reputation: 15451

When truncating HTML for abbreviated views, I recommend throwing a strip_tags first, generally you don't really need formatting/links on abbreviated content, imo.

$plainBody=strip_tags($body);
$abrvBody=strlen($plainBody)>2000?susbtr($plainBody,0,2000):$plainBody;

If you must keep your formatting/links, you can always clean up the chopped text with preg_replace

$cleanAbrvBody=preg_replace('/<[^>]+$/','',susbtr($body,0,2000));

Though you may end up with un-closed tags.

Upvotes: 1

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