I might have something wrong here. I'm trying to strip the HTML from a blog article and only show 200 characters. It seems to work but I get strange characters. What did I do wrong?

          {{$trimmedValue = strip_tags($entry->content()|raw, "<p><div><span><br><hr><b><i><em><strong><img>"); }}
          {{$trimmedValue = substr($trimmedValue, 0, 200);  }}
          {$trimmedValue} <a href="{$entry->url()}">Read More</a>

Not sure why you have $entry->content()|raw, raw is usually used with the templates.

Try taking the |raw out and see if that doesn't fix the problem.

22 hours ago, Hulu said:

Not sure why you have $entry->content()|raw, raw is usually used with the templates.

Try taking the |raw out and see if that doesn't fix the problem.

Thanks. Removing the raw did correct the issue. Not fully understanding why it worked. The raw produced all the content in raw format, including the HTML tags.

Was facing the same problem.

The reason why |raw actaully breaks it is because if you execute pure PHP this runs outside the IPS code framework for template output