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We have multiple entries that are full of multiple paragraphs, however due to some layout conventions we want to strip only the opening paragraph tag because we are combining two different custom fields - like this:

{n_location} — {n_body}

Basically we want the returned results from {n_body} to be:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Vestibulum fringilla felis et ligula. Aliquam tempor porttitor ligula.

In ultrices molestie nulla. Duis ut ante quis dolor accumsan aliquam. Etiam egestas, eros et vulputate ultrices, ligula tortor laoreet nisi, ut rutrum neque tortor sit amet lacus. Maecenas eu nisl. Donec eu velit. Integer diam mauris, aliquet ac, nonummy at, interdum sit amet, purus.

Ut vel arcu. Mauris ornare. Cras dui magna, tristique sed, gravida nec, pretium sit amet, neque. Sed pretium. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Etiam fringilla hendrerit lacus.

Are your entries only ever going to be P’s? no other tags?

I’m not sure if I understand what you asking.

There will be other html tags in there <strong>, <em>, <ul>, <li>, <ol>, <blockquote>, <img> <a>—however, it will always only start with a .

Does that make better sense?

bjs

I’m assuming here that {n_body} always has an opening tag.

<?php
$output="{n_body}"
echo substr($output, 3);
?>

Allow for php in your template of course 😊

How would I drop this into a plugin so I don’t have to turn on PHP on every page in our site?

bjs

How would I drop this into a plugin so I don’t have to turn on PHP on every page in our site?

bjs

You could put above code in an embed and set your php settings on the embed template.

very cool

I tried this and it didn’t seem to work - I tried it both as output and input, and I also tried as an embed and also on the same page.

Can you post the full code of your embed and your template?

I tested this and it works.
Code for your embed template (set php to input)

<?php 
$your_variable = <<<ABCD
{n_body}
ABCD;

echo (substr($your_variable, 3));
?>

in your main template (set php to output) use

{embed="name of template group/name of embed template"}

and make sure this is between the {exp:weblog} tags. Worked for me so see what happens.

The problem I ran into was that I didn’t set my master teplate to PHP. I was trying to not have to set every template to have PHP on. I will give this a shot