note 77256 added to function.strlen

my last post was a biiiiig mistake. This is the right way to display a few words of an html formatted text, which is based on the functions of the previous post, strllen_Html and strlen_noHtml, that returns the string length counting tag-characters and non-tag-characters. This can be useful to put a preview of an article on the front page when the rest of the article is displayed on another page: function getPreviewText($text) { // Strip all tags $desc = strip_tags(html_entity_decode($text), "<a><em>"); $charlen = 0; $crs = 0; if(strlen_HTML($desc) == 0) $preview = substr($desc, 0, 69); else { $i = 0; while($charlen < 80) { $crs = strpos($desc, " ", $crs)+1; $lastopen = strrpos(substr($desc, 0, $crs), "<"); $lastclose = strrpos(substr($desc, 0, $crs), ">"); if($lastclose > $lastopen) { // we are not in a tag $preview = substr($desc, 0, $crs); $charlen = strlen_noHTML($preview); } $i++; } } return $preview."&#8230;" } will display text cut as near as possible to character 80 respecting each <a> and <em> tags and ending with ... ---- Server IP: 212.63.193.10 Probable Submitter: 83.190.139.162 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/77256 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77256/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77256/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77256/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77256/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77256/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77256/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77256 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/77256 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php