138 lines
5.9 KiB
Markdown
138 lines
5.9 KiB
Markdown
HTML To Markdown for PHP
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A helper class that converts HTML to [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) for your sanity and convenience.
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[](https://travis-ci.org/nickcernis/html-to-markdown)
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**Version**: 2.2.0
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**Requires**: PHP 5.3+
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**Author**: [@nickcernis](http://twitter.com/nickcernis)
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**License**: [MIT](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
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### Why convert HTML to Markdown?
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*"What alchemy is this?"* you mutter. *"I can see why you'd convert [Markdown to HTML](http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/),"* you continue, already labouring the question somewhat, *"but why go the other way?"*
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Typically you would convert HTML to Markdown if:
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1. You have an existing HTML document that needs to be edited by people with good taste.
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2. You want to store new content in HTML format but edit it as Markdown.
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3. You want to convert HTML email to plain text email.
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4. You know a guy who's been converting HTML to Markdown for years, and now he can speak Elvish. You'd quite like to be able to speak Elvish.
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5. You just really like Markdown.
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### How to use it
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Either include HTML_To_Markdown.php directly:
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require_once( dirname( __FILE__) . '/HTML_To_Markdown.php' );
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Or, require the library in your composer.json:
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{
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"require": {
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"nickcernis/html-to-markdown": "dev-master"
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}
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}
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Then `composer install` and add `require 'vendor/autoload.php';` to the top of your script.
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Next, create a new HTML_To_Markdown instance, passing in your valid HTML code:
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$html = "<h3>Quick, to the Batpoles!</h3>";
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$markdown = new HTML_To_Markdown($html);
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The `$markdown` object now contains the Markdown version of your HTML. Use it like a string:
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echo $markdown; // ==> ### Quick, to the Batpoles!
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Or access the Markdown output directly:
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$string = $markdown->output();
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The included `demo` directory contains an HTML->Markdown conversion form to try out.
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### Conversion options
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By default, HTML To Markdown preserves HTML tags without Markdown equivalents, like `<span>` and `<div>`.
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To strip HTML tags that don't have a Markdown equivalent while preserving the content inside them, set `strip_tags` to true, like this:
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$html = '<span>Turnips!</span>';
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$markdown = new HTML_To_Markdown($html, array('strip_tags' => true)); // $markdown now contains "Turnips!"
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Or more explicitly, like this:
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$html = '<span>Turnips!</span>';
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$markdown = new HTML_To_Markdown();
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$markdown->set_option('strip_tags', true);
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$markdown->convert($html); // $markdown now contains "Turnips!"
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Note that only the tags themselves are stripped, not the content they hold.
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To strip tags and their content, pass a space-separated list of tags in `remove_nodes`, like this:
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$html = '<span>Turnips!</span><div>Monkeys!</div>';
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$markdown = new HTML_To_Markdown($html, array('remove_nodes' => 'span div')); // $markdown now contains ""
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### Style options
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Bold and italic tags are converted using the asterisk syntax by default. Change this to the underlined syntax using the `bold_style` and `italic_style` options.
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$html = '<em>Italic</em> and a <strong>bold</strong>';
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$markdown = new HTML_To_Markdown();
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$markdown->set_option('italic_style', '_');
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$markdown->set_option('bold_style', '__');
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$markdown->convert($html); // $markdown now contains "_Italic_ and a __bold__"
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### Limitations
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- Markdown Extra, MultiMarkdown and other variants aren't supported – just Markdown.
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### Known issues
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- Nested lists and lists containing multiple paragraphs aren't converted correctly.
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- Lists inside blockquotes aren't converted correctly.
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- Any reported [open issues here](https://github.com/nickcernis/html-to-markdown/issues?state=open).
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[Report your issue or request a feature here.](https://github.com/nickcernis/html2markdown/issues/new) Issues with patches or failing tests are especially welcome.
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### Style notes
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- Setext (underlined) headers are the default for H1 and H2. If you prefer the ATX style for H1 and H2 (# Header 1 and ## Header 2), set `header_style` to 'atx' in the options array when you instantiate the object:
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`$markdown = new HTML_To_Markdown( $html, array('header_style'=>'atx') );`
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Headers of H3 priority and lower always use atx style.
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- Links and images are referenced inline. Footnote references (where image src and anchor href attributes are listed in the footnotes) are not used.
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- Blockquotes aren't line wrapped – it makes the converted Markdown easier to edit.
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### Dependencies
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HTML To Markdown requires PHP's [xml](http://www.php.net/manual/en/xml.installation.php), [lib-xml](http://www.php.net/manual/en/libxml.installation.php), and [dom](http://www.php.net/manual/en/dom.installation.php) extensions, all of which are enabled by default on most distributions.
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Errors such as "Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found" on distributions such as CentOS that disable PHP's xml extension can be resolved by installing php-xml.
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### Architecture notes
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HTML To Markdown is a single file that uses native DOM manipulation libraries (DOMDocument), not regex voodoo, to convert code.
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### Contributors
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Many thanks to all [contributors](https://github.com/nickcernis/html2markdown/graphs/contributors) so far. Further improvements and feature suggestions are very welcome.
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### How it works
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HTML To Markdown creates a DOMDocument from the supplied HTML, walks through the tree, and converts each node to a text node containing the equivalent markdown, starting from the most deeply nested node and working inwards towards the root node.
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### To-do
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- Support for nested lists and lists inside blockquotes.
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- Offer an option to preserve tags as HTML if they contain attributes that can't be represented with Markdown (e.g. `style`).
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### Trying to convert Markdown to HTML?
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Use [PHP Markdown](http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/) from Michel Fortin. No guarantees about the Elvish, though.
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