Convert HTML to Text with PHP-4

Overview

This example is part of the project titled HTML Parser for PHP-4. It's a class named Html2Text which converts HTML to ASCII text, while attempting to preserve page formatting.

Requirements

Tested with PHP 4.0.4. It should work with PHP 4.0.3+.

Download

The latest version is available at SourceForge's download area for this project.

Limitations

Perhaps the most relevant limitations of the latest version of this simple tool are that it ignores tables and that it does not center.

Author

The HTML Parser for PHP-4 and this example were written by Jose Solorzano of Starnetsys, LLC. (If you need a website or program developed professionally, affordably, and on time, be sure to contact starnetsys.com.)

Usage Tips

You only need to copy src/htmlparser.inc and src/html2text.inc to a location in your codebase where you'd like to be able to include them. The PHP file that uses this conversion tool could look like this: 


<?
  include ("html2text.inc");

  $htmlText = "... HTML text here ...";
  $asciiText = new Html2Text ($htmlText, 15); // 15 columns maximum
  $text = $htmlToText->convert();
  echo "Converted to: " . $text;

?>

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