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@NogDogNov 17.2021 — #Just because I had a few minutes while waiting for a DB query to complete...I came up with this as an idea. :)
HTML in database
I’ve raw HTML stored in my db. It’s in paragraph format <p>Blaa Blaa</p> etc.
it’s safe as it’s saved from an admin page but how can I echo the first 30 or 50 works only?
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@NogDogNov 17.2021 — #Just because I had a few minutes while waiting for a DB query to complete...I came up with this as an idea. :)[code=php]
function first($text, $words) {
$text = strip_tags($text);
$split = preg_split('/s+/', $text);
$words = array_slice($split, 0, (int) $words);
return implode(' ', $words);
}
$test = "<h1>Hello, World!</h1>n<p>This is a test. It is <em>only</em> a test.</p>n<p>The end.</p>";
echo first($test, 10);
// OUTPUT:
// Hello, World! This is a test. It is only a
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