Posted by Dave Moore on 07/19/05 22:46

Hi All,
Here's my problem. I have a large textual entry in a database which I
want to extract and display on a webpage using php. Everything's ok, so far.
However, I only want to show the first 100 characters of the text, not all
of it. The problem is that the text includes HTML tags. If I simply cut the
text off at 100 characters, there's a chance that I will do so in the middle
of a HTML tag which will then break the rest of the page.

So my question is: can I use php to help me detect an appropriate place to
cut the string?. Is there a neat function to do this or will I have to muck
around with string analysis functions?. Alternatively is there a way to
render the whole string but only make the first 100 characters visible?.
Maybe this would be neater?.

Any comments or suggestions gratefully received.

Ta,
Dave

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