Question

I have a mySql database i want to display only 10 words from its body field which contain html codes, How i can do that, is there any php function to do that.

Answer 1

BETTER solution

function gen_string($string,$min=10,$clean=false) {
    $string = str_replace('<br />',' ',$string);
    $string = str_replace('</p>',' ',$string);
    $string = str_replace('<li>',' ',$string);
    $string = str_replace('</li>',' ',$string);
    $text = trim(strip_tags($string));
    if(strlen($text)>$min) {
        $blank = strpos($text,' ');
        if($blank) {
            # limit plus last word
            $extra = strpos(substr($text,$min),' ');
            $max = $min+$extra;
            $r = substr($text,0,$max);
            if(strlen($text)>=$max && !$clean) $r=trim($r,'.').'...';
        } else {
            # if there are no spaces
            $r = substr($text,0,$min).'...';
        }
    } else {
        # if original length is lower than limit
        $r = $text;
    }
    return trim($r);
}

just pass the html through the gen_string() function