/', '', $text)) <= $length) { return $text; } // splits all html-tags to scanable lines preg_match_all('/(<.+?>)?([^<>]*)/s', $text, $lines, PREG_SET_ORDER); $total_length = strlen($ending); $open_tags = array(); $truncate = ''; foreach ($lines as $line_matchings) { // if there is any html-tag in this line, handle it and add it (uncounted) to the output if (!empty($line_matchings[1])) { // if it’s an “empty element” with or without xhtml-conform closing slash (f.e.) if (preg_match('/^<(\s*.+?\/\s*|\s*(img|br|input|hr|area|base|basefont|col|frame|isindex|link|meta|param)(\s.+?)?)>$/is', $line_matchings[1])) { // do nothing // if tag is a closing tag (f.e.) } else if (preg_match('/^<\s*\/([^\s]+?)\s*>$/s', $line_matchings[1], $tag_matchings)) { // delete tag from $open_tags list $pos = array_search($tag_matchings[1], $open_tags); if ($pos !== false) { unset($open_tags[$pos]); } // if tag is an opening tag (f.e. ) } else if (preg_match('/^<\s*([^\s>!]+).*?>$/s', $line_matchings[1], $tag_matchings)) { // add tag to the beginning of $open_tags list array_unshift($open_tags, strtolower($tag_matchings[1])); } // add html-tag to $truncate’d text $truncate .= $line_matchings[1]; } // calculate the length of the plain text part of the line; handle entities as one character $content_length = strlen(preg_replace('/&[0-9a-z]{2,8};|&#[0-9]{1,7};|&#x[0-9a-f]{1,6};/i', ' ', $line_matchings[2])); if ($total_length+$content_length > $length) { // the number of characters which are left $left = $length - $total_length; $entities_length = 0; // search for html entities if (preg_match_all('/&[0-9a-z]{2,8};|&#[0-9]{1,7};|&#x[0-9a-f]{1,6};/i', $line_matchings[2], $entities, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE)) { // calculate the real length of all entities in the legal range foreach ($entities[0] as $entity) { if ($entity[1]+1-$entities_length <= $left) { $left--; $entities_length += strlen($entity[0]); } else { // no more characters left break; } } } $truncate .= substr($line_matchings[2], 0, $left+$entities_length); // maximum lenght is reached, so get off the loop break; } else { $truncate .= $line_matchings[2]; $total_length += $content_length; } // if the maximum length is reached, get off the loop if($total_length >= $length) { break; } } } else { if (strlen($text) <= $length) { return $text; } else { $truncate = substr($text, 0, $length - strlen($ending)); } } // if the words shouldn't be cut in the middle... if (!$exact) { // ...search the last occurance of a space... $spacepos = strrpos($truncate, ' '); if (isset($spacepos)) { // ...and cut the text in this position $truncate = substr($truncate, 0, $spacepos); } } // add the defined ending to the text $truncate .= $ending; if($considerHtml) { // close all unclosed html-tags foreach ($open_tags as $tag) { $truncate .= ""; } } return $truncate; } $html = "

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.

Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

"; print truncate($html,50,'...',true,true);