substr() to ignore tags

[conker87]

I have a little blogging code that shows a little snippit (300 characters) of the blog and then a direct link to it.

 

<php

substr(strip_tags(nl2br($array['content']), "<img><br><br />"), "0", "300");

?>

Is the code I'm using.

 

I'm wondering if I could modify the substr function (thus making my own function) to not count html tags as part of the number of characters shown. I'm sure this can be done, any ideas?

[soycharliente]

$content = preg_replace('%<span class="foo">(.*?)</span>%sm', '\1', $content);

 

that should return text with all tags stripped.

[cooldude832]

this is a tricky problem.

 

What I would do is simply full run strip_tags then get the text substr and then reapply formatting.