Posted by J.O. Aho on 01/22/07 11:17

chris.huh wrote:
> I have looked about and found plenty of information about getting the
> first 100 characters from a mysql field, which is what i want. But, is
> there a way to first remove any html that may be in the field first, so
> that only the actual words are included.

I guess it's easies to fetch the whole field to php and use ereg* functions to
strip away the HTML tags and then take the 100 first characters.


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//Aho

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