transform html into plain text

dani_php

hi,

I generate on-the-fly pdfs text from database.
in database i have html format but pdf prints like in html
(don't format the text: prints <html>...).
How can i transform html code in text/plain, but to keep
the style page?

Thanks

ZibingsCoder

Originally posted by dani_php
...How can i transform html code in text/plain, but to keep
the style page?...

Not quite sure what you mean, but the easiest way to change something to text/plain would be to either set it in the headers:


header ( "Content-type: text" );

or you can run something that will replace all the <'s and >'s into their...well here...


str_replace(array("<", ">"), array("&lt;", "&gt;"), $str);

Gosh darnit I can't think tonight...

kburger

I think what he's trying to say is that what's in his database is something like...

<html>
<head>
   <title>Some Page</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello World!<br><br>
Some other line<br>
...

And what he'd like his PDF to generate is...

Hello World!

Some other line
...

Drakla

Well you could use [man]strip_tags[/man] on it, but really you might want to keep the line breaks as they are in the original. But to avoid confusing them with the line breaks actually in the document you'd have to strip them all out first with str_replace, then replace all occurences of <br /> or <br> with newlines, and then strip the tags. Of course some formatting is going to get wakked.