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11.11. Converting HTML to ASCII

11.11.2. Solution

If you have access to an external program that formats HTML as ASCII, such as lynx, call it like so:

$file = escapeshellarg($file);
$ascii = `lynx -dump $file`;

11.11.4. See Also

Recipe 9.9 for more on get_html_translation_table(); documentation on preg_replace( ) at http://www.php.net/preg-replace, get_html_translation_table( ) at http://www.php.net/get-html-translation-table, and strip_tags( ) at http://www.php.net/strip-tags.



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