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.

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Answer 1

Here is a function I'm using in one of my projects. It's based on DOMDocument, works with HTML5 and is about 2x faster than other solutions I've tried (at least on my machine, 0.22 ms vs 0.43 ms using html_cut($text, $max_length) from the top answer on a 500 text-node-characters string with a limit of 400).

function cut_html ($html, $limit) {
    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    $dom->loadHTML(mb_convert_encoding("
{$html}
", "HTML-ENTITIES", "UTF-8"), LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD);
    cut_html_recursive($dom->documentElement, $limit);
    return substr($dom->saveHTML($dom->documentElement), 5, -6);
}

function cut_html_recursive ($element, $limit) {
    if($limit > 0) {
        if($element->nodeType == 3) {
            $limit -= strlen($element->nodeValue);
            if($limit < 0) {
                $element->nodeValue = substr($element->nodeValue, 0, strlen($element->nodeValue) + $limit);
            }
        }
        else {
            for($i = 0; $i < $element->childNodes->length; $i++) {
                if($limit > 0) {
                    $limit = cut_html_recursive($element->childNodes->item($i), $limit);
                }
                else {
                    $element->removeChild($element->childNodes->item($i));
                    $i--;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return $limit;
}