Limit input length of text that contains HTML tags

Question

I have a php web sites in wich I can manages articles. On the Add a new article form, there is a rich-text-box (allows HTML input) that I\'d like to limit the character inpu

Answer 1

html_entity_decode only decodes HTML entities, it doesn't ignore HTML tags. Try:

strlen(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($string)));

Or the multi-byte equivalent:

mb_strlen(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($string)), 'auto');