Getting HTML before first <br/> tag
<p>I've been trying to extract the content of a variable before the first break tag occurs in php.</p>

<p>e.g  </p>

<pre><code>$content = "this is my content &lt;br /&gt; as it continues &lt;br /&gt; another break tag";
</code></pre>

<p>I want to get the part before the first <br /> tag and store it in a variable $first.  Thus for the above example, $first should contain "this is my content"</p>

<p>Any idea how to do this in php?  I'm stuck with the split() php function...</p>
