html to plain text help please !!!!

[_MuTe-ZFX_]

Hi guys,

Iam crap a regexp's so could someone help me Iam trying to write a function that will output a plain text version of a html page.

At the moment ive got:

function htmltoplain($str)
{
$str = strip_tags($str,"<br>");
$str = ereg_replace ('[[:space:]]+', ' ', trim($str));
$str = ereg_replace("[\r\t\n]","",$str);
$str = ereg_replace("<br>","\n",$str);
return $str;
}

Its managed to take alot of the crap out that the strip_tags left behind but ive still got some double spacing etc.

any help would be cool

thx in advance .....

[jpmoriarty]

why not use the "+" more often:

function htmltoplain($str)
{
$str = strip_tags($str,"<br>");
$str = ereg_replace ('[[:space:]]+', ' ', trim($str));
$str = ereg_replace("[\r\t\n]+","",$str);
$str = ereg_replace("<br>+","\n",$str);
$str = ereg_replace("\n+","\n",$str);
return $str;
}

wont that work?

[superwormy]

It's nice and quick if you string everything thats between < and >, and then just do a few other quick checks to strip things between <script and </script>

I have a function ( actually mentioned over here: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10234010 ) which does that, might be helpful if you're interested shoot me and email - [e-mail]

And to get rid of multiple spaces next to each other, try something like this ( maybe not hte most efficient way, but it works damn good ):

// note this is while (strstr ($string, "[two spaces go here]")) {
while (strstr ($string, "&nbsp;&nbsp;")) {

// and this is str_repalce ("[two spaces]", "[only one space]"
$string = str_replace ("&nbsp;&nbsp; ", " ", $string);

}