Extracting a paragraph (minus the HTML)

[tHud]

Hello

 

$row[longdescription] contains a description of a product (complete with HTML mark-up).

 

I would like to display the first 250 characters in the results of a search. I would also like to remove any images that may crop up.

 

This is what I have so far...

echo strip_tags(html_entity_decode(substr(preg_replace('/<img[^>]*>/Ui', '', $row[longdescription]), 0, 250)));

 

The thing is (as you guys can probably already see), it also counts the HTML mark-up as characters and I get very different outputs (especially if an image occurs).

 

I'd appreciate if you could advise me as to the correct way of doing this.

 

Thank you

 

[Buddski]

Shouldnt

echo substr(strip_tags($row['longdescription']), 0, 250);

Do what you need?

[tHud]

Hi

 

Unfortunately not.

This is what the output looks like...

 

<div style="padding-bottom: 10px"> <strong><span class="bodyTitle themeColor">Seamless information workflow and dahdah monitoring </span></strong><br /> <br /> dah dah dah

 

[Buddski]

Oh I see, perhaps this

echo substr(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($row['longdescription'])), 0, 250);

[tHud]

oh yeah - that hit the spot!

 

Thank you Buddski!!!

 

Can I be cheeky now and ask if it possible to end the string at the end of a word - and not in mid word as I am currently doing?

 

Thank you :)

[Buddski]

Yep, after you have got your max 250 characters, find the last occurrence of ' ' and end the string before that last ' '