How to crop texts preserving whole words and strip HTML

If you need to crop a text to a certain length, also make the crop preserve whole words and strip HTML you can do this from your TYPO3 extension in the following manner:

$short=$this->cObj->stdWrap($row['bodytext'], array('crop' => '200|...|1', 'stripHtml'=>1));

The magic that does this is $this->cObj->stdWrap where the first parameter is the string and the second one the configuration array for the crop and strip html.