Question

i want to get first n words from text stored in my database without cutting words from middle and i don’t want to include html tags. Any help ??
eg. if i have

<font size="2" face="georgia">   <span style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">    <font color="#006600"> Indian Institute of Technology </font> - Premier Institutes for Engineering in India. </span>   </font>

and i want to get

Indian Institute of Technology – Premier…

Answer 1

Try this:

$it=<<<HDOC
<font size="2" face="georgia"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><font color="#006600"> Indian Institute of Technology </font> - Premier Institutes for Engineering in India. </span>   </font>

HDOC;
$it = trim(strip_tags($it));
// spit into words using space as delineator
$itsplit = preg_split('/ /',$it);
// get first n  words
$n = 3;
$out="";
for ($x=1; $x<=$n;$x++)
{  
  $out .=  $itsplit[$x]." ";
}
$out = substr($out,0,-1); //strip last space
echo htmlspecialchars($out); // the htmlspecialchars is to show there are no tags