html => text conversion

[Anon]

What I am doing is making a mailing list app. When the author write the
message they will choose whether
the message is text or html. If it is text it sends it out. If it is html it
needs to make a text version of the page to
send to the members of the list that have requested text only messages. So I
wouldn't want to change < to &gt;
I want to change this:

<font color="FF0000" face="Verdana">HELLO WORLD &amp; OTHER
PEOPLE</font><br>
<br>
<img src="image.jpg">

into this:

HELLO WORLD & OTHER PEOPLE

<<image.jpg>>

This is should be so easy. I would have thought that there would be an
html2text() function or something to
do this. I am sure that other people have done this I just can't find any
other programs that do this.

Please help! I have spent 9+ hours trying to get this to work.

Jess
[e-mail]

[Anon]

I saw what you are looking for at a web site called "CPAN". I've come across the site several times. Just search on "PERL"

In the CPAN's "modules" section, you should find what you seek.

Good luck!

[Anon]

CPAN focusses on PERL. PHP and PERL are still a few feet apart.

Check out the regular expressions, they let you replace strings within strings
so you can easily replace all html tags with spaces or whatever you require.
Something like:

$text = preg_replace("/(<.*?>)/"," ",$html);
or
$text = preg_replace("/(<br>)/","\n",$filtered);

btw, this is a PHP function, but you can use PERL regular expressions.