Good way to strip HTML from teasers?

Hi Steve - thanks for your input. To answer your question - this is for views pages...

Basically over the years I gave my users TinyMCE and the ability to create content as they wanted... Unfortunately that means some of the teasers have huge inline images, some have small images, some have formatted html text - it's all over the place and it's got to stop. LOL. My plan is to migrate everything to a structured, imagefield + imagecache system (no more random inline images messing up layout) that's clean and just works better for everything...

But - I'm still stuck with about 8K existing node teasers that need to be cleaned up. I'd love to find out that I missed something obvious - that I could run PHP or Views Bulk Op that'd go in and reset all the teasers to have all html stripped out w/o changing the node body... That way it'd be a one time thing that I could run overnight / cron...

Chris

The simple answer might be that you create a new revision of all the content that you are cleaning up - if something goes wrong that you have missed, you could have all the content revert back to a revision just prior to it (if you create a module out of what you want to do, you could create another table with fields like nid, cur_vid, prev_vid) and reset everything to use the prior revision fairly easily that way.

I've been playing a lot with the batch api (and will soon be playing with either job_queue or drupal_queue (the latter of which is a backport of the queue module that is in Drupal 7 core) for scheduling tasks in cron) and that would be a good way to run what you have in 'one' operation - they're both going to be somewhat resource intensive (though strip_tags isn't particularly resource intensive as Steve mentioned above) but they'll get the job done fairly gracefully. Creating it as a drush task would be another.

As always, test this all out on a dev machine and don't forget to make a (or a series of) backup(s) :)