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1. WarAxe
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Okay, here'a good one to test the PHP coders amoung us.

   I want to read $post_content from a post and display only a portion of it if it exceeds a certain length (we'll say 1000 characters). But, I'm freaked out about just using this: echo(substr($post_content,0,999)); ...because I don't want it to cut off in the middle of an xhtml tag (or something equally error promising).

   I had thought about iterating through $page_content and counting the '<' and '>' (much like a running stack variable or counting 10's in Black Jack)... but I still may end up cutting off before a beginning tag has goten to its ending tag.

   Any ideas?

2. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   My the_excerpt Reloaded plugin makes use of WP's pre-existing function balanceTags(). If it helps:

   http://guff.szub.net/source/the-excerpt-reloaded.php

3. WarAxe
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yeah... I think that'll do the trick. I'll let everyone know what it looks like when I'm done. :-)

   Thanks.

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