A PHP library for converting HTML to formatted plain text.
composer require html2text/html2text
$html2text = new \Html2Text\Html2Text('Hello, "<b>world</b>"');
echo $html2text->getText(); // Hello, "WORLD"The constructor takes an optional 2nd parameter which is an array of options.
$html2text = new \Html2Text\Html2Text(string $html, array $options = []);Options and defaults are:
[
'do_links' => 'inline', // 'none'
// 'inline' (show links inline)
// 'nextline' (show links on the next line)
// 'table' (if a table of link URLs should be listed after the text.
// 'bbcode' (show links as bbcode)
'width' => 70, // Maximum width of the formatted text, in columns.
// Set this value to 0 (or less) to ignore word wrapping
// and not constrain text to a fixed-width column.
'plain_text' => false, // If true then disables various pseudo formatting:
// No converting bold, th or headings to upper case.
// No character conversion to simulate strike through for <del>
// No adding _ around italic text (<i> <em> and <ins> tags)
// <hr> is replaced by "\n\n" rather than "\n-------------------------\n"
];This library started life on the blog of Jon Abernathy http://www.chuggnutt.com/html2text
A number of projects picked up the library and started using it - among those was RoundCube mail. They made a number of updates to it over time to suit their webmail client.
Now it has been extracted as a standalone library. Hopefully it can be of use to others.