html2text [](https://travis-ci.org/soundasleep/html2text) [](https://packagist.org/packages/soundasleep/html2text)
=========
html2text is a very simple script that uses PHP's DOM methods to load from HTML, and then iterates over the resulting DOM to correctly output plain text. For example:
```html
<html>
<title>Ignored Title</title>
<body>
<h1>Hello, World!</h1>
<p>This is some e-mail content.
Even though it has whitespace and newlines, the e-mail converter
will handle it correctly.
<p>Even mismatched tags.</p>
<div>A div</div>
<div>Another div</div>
<div>A div<div>within a div</div></div>
<a href="http://foo.com">A link</a>
</body>
</html>
```
Will be converted into:
```text
Hello, World!
This is some e-mail content. Even though it has whitespace and newlines, the e-mail converter will handle it correctly.
Even mismatched tags.
A div
Another div
A div
within a div
[A link](http://foo.com)
```
See the [original blog post](http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon-phd/entry/19818) or the related [StackOverflow answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2564472/39531).
## Installing
You can use [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/) to add the [package](https://packagist.org/packages/soundasleep/html2text) to your project:
```json
{
"require": {
"soundasleep/html2text": "~0.5"
}
}
```
And then use it quite simply:
```php
$text = Html2Text\Html2Text::convert($html);
```
You can also include the supplied `html2text.php` and use `$text = convert_html_to_text($html);` instead.
## Tests
Some very basic tests are provided in the `tests/` directory. Run them with `composer install --dev && vendor/bin/phpunit`.
## License
`html2text` is dual licensed under both [EPL v1.0](https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html) and [LGPL v3.0](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html), making it suitable for both Eclipse and GPL projects.
## Other versions
Also see [html2text_ruby](https://github.com/soundasleep/html2text_ruby), a Ruby implementation.