PHP get first paragraph from a string function

02 February, 2012 by Tom Elliott

Here’s a useful PHP function to return the first paragraph from a HTML text string. It involves finding the character position of the first closing “p” tag from the first paragraph.

Add the following function somewhere in you PHP (I usually have a global functions file).

")+4);
        return $string;
    }
?>

Then call the function, passing the string variable:

If you wanted to remove the paragraph tags from the HTML, the function would change to:

")+4);
        $string = str_replace("
", "", str_replace("
", "", $string));
        return $string;
    }
?>

That’s it!

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