How to extract only text from HTML string with PHP?

Question

I want to extract only text from a php string.

This php string contains html code like tags or etc.

So I only need a simple text from this string.

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Answer 1

Another option is to use Html2Text. It will do a much better job than strip_tags, especially if you want to parse complicated HTML code.

Extracting text from HTML is tricky, so your best bet is to use a library built for this purpose.

https://github.com/mtibben/html2text

Install using composer:

composer require html2text/html2text

Basic usage:

$html = new \Html2Text\Html2Text('Hello, &quot;<b>world</b>&quot;');

echo $html->getText();  // Hello, "WORLD"

Answer 2

You may try:

echo(strip_tags($your_string));

More info here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

Answer 3

Adding another option for someone else who may need this, the Stringizer library might be an option, see Strip Tags.

Full disclosure I'm the owner of the project.