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.