PHP limit text string NOT including html tags?

Question

Here\'s what\'s NOT working for me:

Jack and I love         


        

Answer 1

You could try this, worked for me if no tags are in string $differ will have a value of 0 giving $stringsize your original value of 100

  Jack and I love him very much because he\'s my favorite dog in the whole wide world and nothing could make me not love him, I think.';

$stringall=strlen($string);
$striphtml = strip_tags($string);
$stringnohtml=strlen(striphtml);
$differ=($stringall-$stringnohtml);
$stringsize=($differ + 100);
$limited = substr($string, 0, $stringsize).'...';
echo $limited;
?>