Laravel truncate text and preserve html tags

laravel-truncate-text-preserve-html

<?php
public function substr_text_only($string, $limit, $end='...')
{
    $with_html_count = strlen($string);
    $without_html_count = strlen(strip_tags($string));
    $html_tags_length = $with_html_count-$without_html_count;

    return str_limit($string, $limit+$html_tags_length, $end);
}
?>