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

try this function

// trim the string function
function trim_word($text, $length, $startPoint=0, $allowedTags=""){
    $text = html_entity_decode(htmlspecialchars_decode($text));
    $text = strip_tags($text, $allowedTags);
    return $text = substr($text, $startPoint, $length);
}

and

echo trim_word("
abcasdsdasasdas
","6");