Truncate sanitizer

[adrianbj]

Short description of the enhancement

Add a truncate() method to the sanitizer class.

Current vs. suggested behavior

Maybe the sanitizer class isn't the right place for it - maybe just a public function: wireTruncate() or something?

Why would the enhancement be useful to users?

I think this is a very common need and it would be nicer than using our own versions.

Optional: Screenshots/Links that demonstrate the enhancement

I think you could make use of this function:
https://github.com/processwire/processwire/blob/57b297fd1d828961b20ef29782012f75957d6886/wire/modules/Markup/MarkupRSS.module#L181

[teppokoivula]

Definitely makes sense. This is something that I've needed on every ProcessWire site I've built so far, more or less. Makes sense not to reinvent the wheel every single time :)

[rolandtoth]

It would be nice if it could take html tags into account, but using strip_tags is also better than nothing.

In my Latte module I'm using this code, perhaps it can help too:
https://github.com/rolandtoth/TemplateLatteReplace/blob/b7d6402bb9b39b90ccdd24b36e3343d92aa2a8f5/_filters.php#L1359

[adrianbj]

Brilliant - thanks @ryancramerdesign