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mrwweb / truncate_html_string.php
Created July 3, 2014 18:08
Improved version of text-truncating html string function to improve character count accuracy. Code found on oikos.org.uk/2013/02/tech-notes-a-wordpress-excerpt-with-html-tags/.
<?
/**
* Truncates text.
*
* Cuts a string to the length of $length and replaces the last characters
* with the ending if the text is longer than length.
*
* See: oikos.org.uk/2013/02/tech-notes-a-wordpress-excerpt-with-html-tags/
* See also: wpengineer.com/2410/dont-use-strlen/
* See also also: oikos.org.uk/2013/02/tech-notes-a-wordpress-excerpt-with-html-tags/#comment-1467093876