Peter Breuls's Weblog

This afternoon I wrote a simple PHP-function to convert an HTML formatted message to plain text. I'm using it to create a non-HTML version of a newsletter. It strips out all the HTML, but before it does that, it captures al links (modeled after this method and turns HTML list-items into plaintext list-items. I thought I'd share the code:

function html2text($text,$wrap=0){
    
    preg_match_all("/(<([\w]+)[^>]*>)([^<]*)(<\/\\2>)/", $text, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
    
    $text = str_replace("<br />","\n",$text);
    $text = str_replace("<br>","\n",$text);    
    $text = str_replace("<BR>","\n",$text);    
    $text = str_replace("<p>","\n\n",$text);    
    $text = str_replace("<P>","\n\n",$text);    
    $text = str_replace("<LI>","\n * ",$text);    
    $text = str_replace("<li>","\n * ",$text);    
    $text = str_replace("</LI>","",$text);    
    $text = str_replace("</li>","",$text);    
    $text = str_replace("</UL>","\n\n",$text);    
    $text = str_replace("</ul>","\n\n",$text);    
    
    $urlcount=0;
    foreach ($matches as $val) {
        if($val[2]=="a" || $val[2]=="A"){
               preg_match_all ("|href\=([\"'`])(.+?)\1|i", $val[1], $urls);
               $urllist[$urlcount]=$urls[2][0];
               $text = str_replace($val[0],$val[3]. " [$urlcount]",$text);
               $urlcount++;
        }
    }
    
    if($wrap>0){
        $text= wordwrap($text, $wrap, "\n");
    }
    $text.="\n";
    
    if(is_array($urllist)){
        foreach($urllist as $key=>$url){
            $text.="\n[".$key."] ".$url."";
        }
    }    
    $text=strip_tags($text);
    return $text;
}

Feel free to use it if you need it. Please mind that the code is wrapped to fit on this page.

The question is: does Google Desktop 2 work with FireFox? It doesn't say..

Maybe I should try it out. Looks interesting, with the sidebar and all.