Internet Methodologies Journal And News

<?php

	$text = "<p>This is 'a' my first paragraph.</p><!-- Comments --> sample text text";

	echo "String Lenght of HTML chars:".strlen_noHtml($text); // 48 chars

function strlen_noHtml($string){
    $crs = 0;
    $charlen = 0;
    $len = strlen($string);
    while($crs < $len)
    {
        $offset = $crs;
        $crs = strpos($string, "<", $offset);
        if($crs === false)
        {
           $crs = $len;
           $charlen += $crs - $offset;
        }
        else
        {
            $charlen += $crs - $offset;
            $crs = strpos($string, ">", $crs)+1;
        }
    }
    return $charlen;
}
?>