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Answer 1

+1 A:

OK, what about http://htmlpurifier.org/ ? Also http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal%5Futilities/htmLawed/index.php

Can you use Tidy? http://php.net/manual/en/book.tidy.php

Mike Crowe 2009-11-13 20:01:55

Answer 2

+2 A:

While I'm sure you could get DOM to do what you want I'm pretty sure you'd be better off with Tidy.

evolve 2009-11-13 20:02:46

Wish I could, can't install Tidy on my server.

Jeff 2009-11-13 20:06:39

While not as comprehensive, there are some functions out there which will go through and close any open tags, two examples are http://snipplr.com/view/3618/close-tags-in-a-htmlsnippet/ and http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/959.

evolve 2009-11-13 20:28:53

I'm fairly sure there is are some classes on www.phpclasses.org which will also close open tags, you might also look at ones which were built for XML as they will basically work the same way.

evolve 2009-11-13 20:30:55

Answer 3

A:

I think you're following the wrong approach: You have to use the DOM stuff to truncate the string, not after truncating it.

This is how I would do it:

Find the place where you want to truncate the string
Delete all child nodes after that point
Truncate the string

Franz 2009-11-13 20:03:13

Answer 4

+1 A:

Can be done with DOMDocument class within PHP using the DOMDocument::loadHTML() & DOMDocument::normalizeDocument() methods.

<?php
    $html = '<div><p>The quick brown <a href="">fox jumps';

    $DDoc = new DOMDocument();
    $DDoc->loadHTML($html);
    $DDoc->normalizeDocument();

    echo $DDoc->saveHTML();
?>

OutPuts:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"&gt; 
<html><body><div><p>The quick brown <a href="">fox jumps</a></p></div></body></html>

From there, just substr & strpos away the html that you don't want, like so:

<?php
    $html = '<div><p>The quick brown <a href="">fox jumps';

    $DDoc = new DOMDocument();
    $DDoc->loadHTML($html);
    $DDoc->normalizeDocument();

    $html = $DDoc->saveHTML();

    # Remove Everything Before & Including The Opening HTML & Body Tags.
    $html = substr($html, strpos($html, '<html><body>') + 12);
    # Remove Everything After & Including The Closing HTML & Body Tags.
    $html = substr($html, 0, -14);

    echo $html;
?>

Mark Tomlin 2009-11-13 20:20:22

Tidy's not an option for me, but hopefully someone will find the info useful. Going to try the DOM part in a minute. Thanks!

Jeff 2009-11-13 20:35:07

How would we do this for XHTML?

Jeff 2009-11-14 14:58:45

I would think all you would need to do is change the DocType to any xhtml dtd. With any luck.

Mark Tomlin 2009-11-15 10:27:17

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