CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phphtmlcodeigniter
Slim
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Reputation: 23

How to automatically close tags in truncated paragraphs

I have a codeigniter page that displays the first 16 words of a product's description from a database. Users can change the description to include i tags and b tags using CKEditor. The problem is that when I truncate the description to 16 words I lose the closing /i and /b tags and that causes my application to malfunction in multiple ways.

My existing code that displays the description.

 <p><?php echo word_limiter($product['description'], 16); ?></p>

What would be the best way to automatically close the formatting tags that could be included in the description?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 134

Answers (1)

ascsoftw
ascsoftw

Reputation: 3476

You need to use strip_tags so that it will remove all HTML tags before rendering.

 <p><?php echo strip_tags( word_limiter($product['description'], 16) ); ?></p>

Upvotes: 1

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