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yuconner on 01/03/08


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html2text

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  1. function html2text($html)
  2. {
  3.     $tags = array (
  4.     0 => '~<h[123][^>]+>~si',
  5.     1 => '~<h[456][^>]+>~si',
  6.     2 => '~<table[^>]+>~si',
  7.     3 => '~<tr[^>]+>~si',
  8.     4 => '~<li[^>]+>~si',
  9.     5 => '~<br[^>]+>~si',
  10.     6 => '~<p[^>]+>~si',
  11.     7 => '~<div[^>]+>~si',
  12.     );
  13.     $html = preg_replace($tags,"\n",$html);
  14.     $html = preg_replace('~</t(d|h)>\s*<t(d|h)[^>]+>~si',' - ',$html);
  15.     $html = preg_replace('~<[^>]+>~s','',$html);
  16.     // reducing spaces
  17.     $html = preg_replace('~ +~s',' ',$html);
  18.     $html = preg_replace('~^\s+~m','',$html);
  19.     $html = preg_replace('~\s+$~m','',$html);
  20.     // reducing newlines
  21.     $html = preg_replace('~\n+~s',"\n",$html);
  22.     return $html;
  23. }

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