HTML to Plain Text Converter
HTML2TEXT is a single class PHP package that converts HTML into plain text., (*1)
It uses DOM methods rather than regular expressions and although it works out of
the box it can be easily further customized to suit any particular need., (*2)
You can visit the official page in Docxpresso., (*3)
Installing HTML2TEXT
The recommended way to install HTML2TEXT is through
Composer., (*4)
# Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Next, run the Composer command to install the latest stable version of HTML2TEXT:, (*5)
php composer.phar require docxpresso/html2text
After installing, you need to require Composer's autoloader:, (*6)
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
You can then later update HTML2TEXT using composer:, (*7)
bash
composer.phar update, (*8)
Using HTML2TEXT
The use of HTML2TEXT is extremely simple:, (*9)
require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
use Docxpresso\HTML2TEXT as Parser;
$html = '<p>A simple paragraph.</p>';
$parser = new Parser\HTML2TEXT($html);
echo $parser->plainText();
You can override some of the default values by including an options array
whenever you invoke the HTML2TEXT class. The following options are available:
- bold: a string of chars that will wrap text in b or strong tags.
The default value is an empty string.
- cellSeparator: a string of chars used to separate content between
contiguous cells in a row. Default value is " || " (\t may be also
a sensible choice)
- images: if set to true the alt value associated to the image will
be printed like [img: alt value]. Default value is true.
- italics: a string of chars that will wrap text in i or em tags. The
default value is an empty string.
- newLine: if set it will replace the default value (\n\r) for titles
and paragraphs.
- tab: a string of chars that will be used like a "tab". The default
value is " " (\t may be another standard option)
- titles: it can be "underline" (default), "uppercase" or "none"., (*10)
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