php: Get plain text from html - simplehtmldom or php strip_tags?

Question

I am looking at getting the plain text from html. Which one should I choose, php strip_tags or simplehtmldom plaintext extraction?

One pro for simplehtmldom is suppo

Answer 1

Extracting text from HTML is tricky, so the best option is to use a library like Html2Text. It was built specifically for this purpose.

https://github.com/mtibben/html2text

Install using composer:

composer require html2text/html2text

Basic usage:

$html = new \Html2Text\Html2Text('Hello, "world"');

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