I have a problem with counting words in PHP, this is my code:
$word=substr(stripslashes(strip_tags($row['short_story'], '<a></a>')), 0,100 )."...";
$tpl->set( '{word}',$word);
on that code i just can show URL links in my result, i need to show complete style and HTML codes, so i changed to this:
$word = substr( stripslashes (strip_tags($row['short_story'], '<a><b><i><u><br></a><div></div>')), 0,400 )."...";
i changed this:
<a></a>
to:
<a><b><i><u><br></a><div></div>
But problem is, i have to set word limit over 400-500 if i want to show my result correct! because with 100 0r 200 word limit, HTML codes will be broken!
My question is, how i can use word count, but counting only numbers and letters? for example in this code:
<div style="color:red;">hello</div>
i need to count only hello word. is that possible?