Shortan String, while exluding html tags.

Hi,
function below does shorten strings.. it's a good code, but sometimes it chops off html image tags too ,
I want to modify it so that it can shortain text while ignoring <IMG> tags. please help thank you..

  function ShortenString($text) {

        // Change to the number of characters you want to display
        $chars = 400;

        $text = $text." ";
        $text = substr($text,0,$chars);
        $text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));
		$text = $text."..."; //for htaccess links
        //$text = $text."...</a>]</font>"; //Original LInk

        return $text  ."<br>";

    }

PHP:

 

Hello,
Are you looking anything like that? http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/09/php_tip_how_strip_html_tags_web_page

Best,
Jakomo

 

This should do what you want.

function ShortenString($text, $chars = 400)
{
	if (strpos(substr($text, 0, $chars), '<') !== false)
	{
		// Opening HTML tag found within the first 400 chars
		return substr($text, 0, strpos($text, '>') + 1) . '...';
	}
	
	return substr($text, 0, $chars) . '...';
}

PHP:

 

thank you so much... it helped me a lot.