Using PHP substr() and strip_tags() while retaining formatting and without breaking HTML

Question

I have various HTML strings to cut to 100 characters (of the stripped content, not the original) without stripping tags and without breaking HTML.

Original H

Answer 1

I made another function to do it, it supports UTF-8:

/**
 * Limit string without break html tags.
 * Supports UTF8
 * 
 * @param string $value
 * @param int $limit Default 100
 */
function str_limit_html($value, $limit = 100)
{

    if (mb_strwidth($value, 'UTF-8') <= $limit) {
        return $value;
    }

    // Strip text with HTML tags, sum html len tags too.
    // Is there another way to do it?
    do {
        $len          = mb_strwidth($value, 'UTF-8');
        $len_stripped = mb_strwidth(strip_tags($value), 'UTF-8');
        $len_tags     = $len - $len_stripped;

        $value = mb_strimwidth($value, 0, $limit + $len_tags, '', 'UTF-8');
    } while ($len_stripped > $limit);

    // Load as HTML ignoring errors
    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    @$dom->loadHTML(''.$value, LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD);

    // Fix the html errors
    $value = $dom->saveHtml($dom->getElementsByTagName('body')->item(0));

    // Remove body tag
    $value = mb_strimwidth($value, 6, mb_strwidth($value, 'UTF-8') - 13, '', 'UTF-8'); //  and 
    // Remove empty tags
    return preg_replace('/<(\w+)\b(?:\s+[\w\-.:]+(?:\s*=\s*(?:"[^"]*"|"[^"]*"|[\w\-.:]+))?)*\s*\/?>\s*<\/\1\s*>/', '', $value);
}

SEE DEMO.

I recommend use html_entity_decode at the start of function, so it preserves the UTF-8 characters:

 $value = html_entity_decode($value);