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Posted By

yuconner on 01/03/08

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01/03/08 11:27am

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function html2text($html)
{
    $tags = array (
    0 => '~<h[123][^>]+>~si',
    1 => '~<h[456][^>]+>~si',
    2 => '~<table[^>]+>~si',
    3 => '~<tr[^>]+>~si',
    4 => '~<li[^>]+>~si',
    5 => '~<br[^>]+>~si',
    6 => '~<p[^>]+>~si',
    7 => '~<div[^>]+>~si',
    );
    $html = preg_replace($tags,"\n",$html);
    $html = preg_replace('~</t(d|h)>\s*<t(d|h)[^>]+>~si',' - ',$html);
    $html = preg_replace('~<[^>]+>~s','',$html);
    // reducing spaces
    $html = preg_replace('~ +~s',' ',$html);
    $html = preg_replace('~^\s+~m','',$html);
    $html = preg_replace('~\s+$~m','',$html);
    // reducing newlines
    $html = preg_replace('~\n+~s',"\n",$html);
    return $html;
}

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Posted By: nigelnquande on December 15, 2014

The above function does not handle tables, images or links properly. Here follows a version I wrote (although it needs improvement for reducing duplicate blank lines):

function html2text ($html) { $plainmessage = strreplace(array('', '', '

', '

', ''), "\n", $html); $plainmessage = strreplace(array("", ""), "\n============", $plainmessage); $plainmessage = strreplace("", "| ", $plainmessage); $plainmessage = strreplace("", "\n-------------", $plainmessage); $plainmessage = strreplace(array("", ''), "# ", $plainmessage); $plainmessage = strreplace(array(''), " | ", $plainmessage); $plainmessage = str_replace(array('', ''), '__', $plain_message); $plain_message = str_replace(array('', ''), '_', $plain_message); $plain_message = str_replace(array('<a href="',>'), ']', $plain_message); $plain_message = strip_tags($plain_message); $plain_message = str_replace(" ", ' ', $plain_message);

    return $plain_message ;
}