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htmlawed-git/htmlawed
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htmLawed - Process text with HTML markup to make it more compliant with HTML standards and administrative policies
1.2.beta.7(11y ago)024LGPL-3.0HTMLPHP >4.4.0
Since Apr 5Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare
[ Source](https://github.com/hakre/HTMLawed)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/htmlawed-git/htmlawed)[ Docs](http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/)[ RSS](/packages/htmlawed-git-htmlawed/feed)WikiDiscussions stable-fixes Synced 1mo ago
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htmLawed
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[](#htmlawed)
PHP code to purify & filter HTML
- make HTML markup in text secure and standard-compliant
- process text for use in HTML, XHTML or XML documents
- restrict HTML elements, attributes or URL protocols using black- or white-lists
- balance tags, check element nesting, transform deprecated attributes and tags, make relative URLs absolute, etc.
- **fast, highly customizable, well-documented**
- single, 48 kb file
- simple HTML Tidy alternative
- free and licensed under LGPL v3 and GPL v2+
- use to filter, secure & sanitize HTML in blog comments or forum posts, generate XML-compatible feed items from web-page excerpts, convert HTML to XHTML, pretty-print HTML, scrape web-pages, reduce spam, remove XSS code, etc.
Read more on the [official *htmLawed* homepage](http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/).
Why a fork?
-----------
[](#why-a-fork)
This git repository tracks changes from the upstream project to allow installation via composer and packagist because the original project doesn't offer compatible and publicly available version control.
The tracking works highly automated. Timestamps are backported for each release, and releases are tagged according to their original versions. This might produce problems for some versions with packagist. We'll see.
### Health Score
24
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LowBetter than 32% of packages
Maintenance20
Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained
Popularity6
Limited adoption so far
Community9
Small or concentrated contributor base
Maturity54
Maturing project, gaining track record
Bus Factor1
Top contributor holds 80% of commits — single point of failure
How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.
**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.
**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.
**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.
### Release Activity
Cadence
Every ~0 days
Total
22
Last Release
4061d ago
### Community
Maintainers
[hakre](/maintainers/hakre)[@hakre](https://github.com/hakre)
---
Top Contributors
[](https://github.com/hakre "hakre (4 commits)")[](https://github.com/brandonburkett "brandonburkett (1 commits)")
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Tags
htmltagsHTMLtidysanitizestrip
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