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Asked: 2026-05-10T13:26:32+00:00

I am looking for good methods of manipulating HTML in PHP. For example, the

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I am looking for good methods of manipulating HTML in PHP. For example, the problem I currently have is dealing with malformed HTML.

I am getting input that looks something like this:

<div>This is some <b>text

As you noticed, the HTML is missing closing tags. I could use regex or an XML Parser to solve this problem. However, it is likely that I will have to do other DOM manipulation in the future. I wonder if there are any good PHP libraries that handle DOM manipulation similar to how Javascript deals with DOM manipulation.

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  1. PHP has a PECL extension that gives you access to the features of HTML Tidy. Tidy is a pretty powerful library that should be able to take code like that and close tags in an intelligent manner.

    I use it to clean up malformed XML and HTML sent to me by a classified ad system prior to import.

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