PHP: HTML markup problem while displaying trimmed HTML markups

Question

I am using a Richtext box control to post some data in one page. and I am saving the data to my db table with the HTML mark up Ex : This is <b >my bold </b > text

I am displaying the first 50 characters of this column in another page. Now When i am saving, if i save a Sentence (with more than 50 chars )with bold tag applied and in my other page when i trim this (for taking first 50 chars) I would lost the closing b tag (</b>) .So the bold is getting applied to rest of my contents in that page.

How can i solve this ? How can i check which all open tags are not closed ? is there anyeasy way to do this in PHP. Is there any function to remove my entire HTML tags / mark up and give me the sentence as plain text ?

Answer 1

http://php.net/strip_tags

the strip_tags function will remove any tags you might have.

Answer 2

Yes

$textWithoutTags = strip_tags($html);