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Revision: 30418
at August 13, 2010 11:07 by math89
Initial Code 
function html2txt($document){
     $search = array('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si', // Strip out javascript
     '@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siU', // Strip style tags properly
     '@<[?]php[^>].*?[?]>@si', //scripts php
     '@<[?][^>].*?[?]>@si', //scripts php
     '@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si', // Strip out HTML tags
     '@<![\s\S]*?--[ \t\n\r]*>@' // Strip multi-line comments including CDATA
     );$text = preg_replace($search, '', $document);
     return $text;
}

// Usage

$html_source = file_get_contents('http://www.phpsnippets.info');
$txt = html2txt($html_source);
Initial URL 
http://www.phpsnippets.info/convert-html-source-to-full-text
Initial Description 
Turn a html source into a full text document by removing all html tags and other unneeded code.
Initial Title 
Convert html source to full text
Initial Tags 
html, text
Initial Language 
PHP