PHP substr but keep HTML tags?

Question

I am wondering if there is an elegant way to trim some text but while being HTML tag aware?

For example, I have this string:

$data = \'         


        

Answer 1

Using @newbieuser his function, I had the same issue, like @pablo-pazos, that it was (not) breaking when $limit fell into an html tag (in my case
at the r)

Fixed with some code

if ( strlen($code) <= $limit ){
    return $code;
}

$html = substr($code, 0, $limit);       

//We must find a . or > or space so we are sure not being in a html-tag!
//In my case there are only 

//If you have more tags, or html formatted text, you must do a little more and also use something like http://htmlpurifier.org/demo.php

$_find_last_char = strrpos($html, ".")+1;
if($_find_last_char > $limit/3*2){
    $html_break = $_find_last_char;
}else{
    $_find_last_char = strrpos($html, ">")+1;
    if($_find_last_char > $limit/3*2){ 
        $html_break = $_find_last_char;
    }else{
        $html_break = strrpos($html, " ");
    }
}

$html = substr($html, 0, $html_break);
preg_match_all ( "#<([a-zA-Z]+)#", $html, $result );
......