We have our own blog system and the post data is stores a raw html, so when it’s called from the db we can just echo it and it’s formatted completely, no need for BB codes in our situation. Our issue now is that our blog posts sometimes are too long and need to be trimmed.
The problem is that our data contains html, mostly <font>, <span>, <p>, <b>, and other styling tags. I made a php function that trims the characters, but it doesn’t take into account the html tags. If the trim function trims the blog it should not trim tags because it messes the whole page. The function needs to be able to close the html tags if they’re trimmed. Is there a function out there that can do this? or a function where I could start and build from it?
There’s a good example here of truncating text while preserving HTML tags.