function chopShort($length, $buttonlanguage = "Read More →")
{
// Removes HTML and HCd inserted photos and galleries, and breaks on a space. It adds a link at the end of the string as well for a “Read More”.
$content_to_chop = $this->get_content();
if (strlen($content_to_chop) > $length) {
$content_to_chop = strip_tags($content_to_chop);
$content_to_chop = scrub_HCd_Tags($content_to_chop);
$content_to_chop = substr($content_to_chop, 0, strpos($content_to_chop, " ", $length));
$content_to_chop .= "... <a class=\"readmore\" href=\"" . get_link(BLOG_STATIC_AREA . "/view/{$this->id}/{$this->slug}") . "\">{$buttonlanguage}</a>\n";
}
return $content_to_chop;
}
function chopText($content, $charcount, $stopchar = " ")
{
// This function is needed to scrub content of the HCd backend tags as well as HTML tags.
// Can be used on events, pages, whatever...
// The Blog model also has one called "chopForBlogDigest" and "chopShort" which works well for Blog entries
// Remove HCd tags
$content = scrub_HCd_Tags($content);
// Scrub HTML (to remove long <a href> urls) and THEN truncate the text.
$content = strip_tags($content);
if (strlen($content) > $charcount) {
// Use the $stopchar to find out where to truncate the text. Use "</p>" if you want to go to the end of the next paragraph
$content = substr($content, 0, strpos($content, $stopchar, $charcount));
}
return $content;
}