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Convert html source to full text

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Turn a html source into a full text document by removing all html tags and other unneeded code.

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function html2txt($document){
     $search = array('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si', // Strip out javascript
     '@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siU', // Strip style tags properly
     '@<[?]php[^>].*?[?]>@si', //scripts php
     '@<[?][^>].*?[?]>@si', //scripts php
     '@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si', // Strip out HTML tags
     '@<![\s\S]*?--[ \t\n\r]*>@' // Strip multi-line comments including CDATA
     );$text = preg_replace($search, '', $document);
     return $text;
}
 
// Usage
 
$html_source = file_get_contents('http://www.phpsnippets.info');
$txt = html2txt($html_source);