Hello, So people post blogs, which may include a youtube link or image or href embedded.
In one part of the application, they want to show only the first X number of characters, before forcing a user to login. So we need to cut the submitted text at this character count, yet, of course, not cut in the middle of a tag. This has turned into a considerable annoyance and I'm wondering if anyone has a quick tip/pointer to a resource to solve this - without writing excessive text parsing code. My general plan (although I hope someone has something better) is to: -- write a function like DeltaOffsets( $Raw, $Stripped) where $Raw is the $Raw post and $Stripped is the post run through strip_tags. -- the function would return an array with the positions relative to the $Raw post of where the stripped text has started/stopped. -- then upon writing to the browser, we could intelligently insert stripped tags up to the cut-off-point of real text (ie, not counting the stripped tags). Although this seems like a lot of work for something that must be done all the time, right? Thoughts on how the other blog engines handle this? There's got to be an easier way...? Yes, security is another issue... H _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
