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  1. function summarise( $input, $break = " ", $end_text = "...", $limit = 255, $tidy_html = 1, $strip_html = 0 ) {
  2.                if ( strlen( $input ) >= $limit ) {
  3.                        $breakpoint = strpos( $input, $break, $limit );
  4.                        $input = substr( $input, 0, $breakpoint ) . $end_text;
  5.                }
  6.                if ( $tidy_html == 1 ) {
  7.                        ob_start(  );
  8.                        $tidy = new tidy;
  9.                        $config = array( 'indent' => true, 'output-xhtml' => true, 'wrap' => 200, 'clean' => true, 'show-body-only' => true );
  10.                        $tidy->parseString( $input, $config, 'utf8' );
  11.                        $tidy->cleanRepair(  );
  12.                        $input = $tidy;
  13.                }
  14.                if ( $strip_html == 1 ) {
  15.                        $input = strip_tags( $input );
  16.                }
  17.                return $input;
  18. }

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