Convert HTML output into a plain text using php

php html plaintext

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Solution 1

Use php strip_tags

If strip_tags is not working for then maybe you can use regex to extract the info you want.

Try using PHP preg_match with /(<td>.*?<\/td>)/ as the pattern

Solution 2

Have a look at simplexml_load_file():

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php

It will allow you to load the HTML data into an object (SimpleXMLElement) and traverse that object like a tree.

Solution 3

try to use PHP function strip_tags

Solution 4

try this one,

<?php
$data = file_get_contents("your_file");
preg_match_all('|<div[^>]*?>(.*?)</div>|si',$data, $result);
print_r($result[0][0]);
?>

I have try this one, and it seems work for me, for you too i hope

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Dan

Updated on July 15, 2022

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Dan almost 2 years

I'm trying to convert my sample HTML output into a plain text but I don't know how. I use file_get_contents but the page which I'm trying to convert returns most like the same.

$raw = "http://localhost/guestbook/profiles.php";
$file_converted = file_get_contents($raw);
echo $file_converted;

profiles.php

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Profiles - GuestBook</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css">
    </head>
<body>
    <!-- Some Divs -->
    <div id="profile-wrapper">
        <h2>Profile</h2>
        <table>
            <tr>
                <td>Name:</td><td> John Dela Cruz</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Age:</td><td>15</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Location:</td><td> SomewhereIn, Asia</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Basically, I trying to echo out something like this (plain text, no styles)

Profile
Name: John Dela Cruz
Age: 15
Location: SomewhereIn, Asia

but i don't know how. :-( . Please help me guys , thank you in advance.

EDIT: Since i am only after of the content of the page, no matter if it's styled or just a plain text , is there a way to select only (see code below) using file_get_contents() ?

 <h2>Profile</h2>
        <table>
            <tr>
                <td>Name:</td><td> John Dela Cruz</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Age:</td><td>15</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Location:</td><td> SomewhereIn, Asia</td>
            </tr>
        </table>