do you know if there is any function (PHP) which clean up some HTML code (got with cURL) and filter the visible text (the one the browser is going to show).
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do you know if there is any function (PHP) which clean up some HTML
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do you know if there is any function (PHP) which clean up some HTML code (got with cURL) and filter the visible text (the one the browser is going to show).
Thanks
This is harder than you’d think. An obvious simple solution is to run strip_tags() over it, but that would simply remove tags and leave all text content intact, including embedded javascript and CSS, as well as all text inside elements that are normally hidden (e.g. by setting
display: noneon them). You could try some regex magic to filter out the parts you’re not interested in, but regular expressions on HTML are generally a bad idea for anything nontrivial. The ultimate solution is, I’m afraid, to use a proper HTML parser and then pull the actual text out of the resulting DOM tree – by the time you have that, you’ll be pretty close to implementing a web browser.