Question

EDIT: The key point is about getting the first 200 characters and closing all tags, that are left open.

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I’m currently loading articles from other website via DOM object (the other website have no RSS). I want to make a “preview” of that article, but here are my problems:

1. I do not control how the articles are written, therefore it seems to always be inside a table on the second TR (they use a CMS and it is messy – see example below).

2. They have A LOT of HTML tags, I don’t want to leave one open.

3. I need to keep the HTML format, I know it’s ugly but it fits perfectly in my page.

Not my code (in French sorry):

<table>

<TR >

<TD class='Normal' valign="top" colspan="2" style="padding-bottom:15px;">13-01-2012   <b>Water-polo – Championnat pan-pacifique<b ></TD>

</TR><TR >

<TD class='Normal' valign="top"><span class="HeadTitleNews"> Les Canadiennes disputeront le bronze aux Chinoises</span>   <img src='http://www.sportcom.qc.ca/Portals/0/2011WaterpoloF.jpg' width='165' align='right' class='imgAnnouncementCss'><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt">Montr&eacute;al, 13 janvier 2012 (Sportcom) &ndash; L&rsquo;&eacute;quipe f&eacute;minine canadienne de water-polo a remport&eacute; une victoire &eacute;crasante de 19-3 face au Br&eacute;sil, vendredi, au Championnat pan-pacifique de Melbourne, en Australie. Les Canadiennes se sont ainsi assur&eacute;es de participer au match pour la m&eacute;daille de bronze contre les Chinoises. </span></div>

<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</div>

<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt">La Montr&eacute;alaise <strong>Sophie</strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt"> Baron-La Salle</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt"> a marqu&eacute; quatre buts dans la victoire. </span></div>

<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</div>

Thanks.

Answer 1

<?php 
$your_string_without_tags = strip_tags($your_string); 
$your_200_char_string = substr($your_string_without_tags, 0, 200); 
?>

Close open HTML tags in a string