I'm using strip_tags to format some rss feeds and produce in html. It works fine until it picks up on a tag which doesn't get closed within the allowable word limit.

PHP Code:

$desc =  strip_tags(summary($item['description'],35),'<img>,<br />'); 


The code is picking up 100 posts but stops when an individual item starts with the <img> tag but it isn't closed within the 35 words.

Is there a way that I can escape this while still using the <img> tag as an allowed_tag?

There is no comma.
Try:

PHP Code:

$tempvar = summary($item['description'],35);
$desc =  strip_tags($tempvar,'<img><br>');