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I need to be able to truncate some text that has HTML tags in it.

In pseudo code I need to:

substring(strip_tags('{myText}'), 0, 100);

or something like this i.e. first remove the HTML tags and then truncate the result.

How do I overcome the order in which PHP is parsed to be able to get EE to accept the input from a channel and then perform the PHP functions?

I did try phpStringFun plugin but it didn’t like nested tags - there may be a better way?