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sunra/html\_to\_text
====================

Working horse HTML to text convertor for PHP. Years of finding right choice

52242PHP

Since Dec 13Pushed 10y ago2 watchersCompare

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HtmlToText
==========

[](#htmltotext)

Convert html to text, filter html tags, purify html. Best and most advanced html to text conversion library for php.

Used Htmlpurifier

Install
-------

[](#install)

Add

```
"ezyang/htmlpurifier": "dev-master",
"sunra/html_to_text": "dev-master"
```

to required section in you composer.json

Use
---

[](#use)

```
// Total remove tags. br converted to new lines
$plain_text = \Sunra\HtmlToText\HtmlToText::plain_text( $html );

// removed all tags but safest 'br,b,strong,li,ol,ul'
$safe_html = \Sunra\HtmlToText\HtmlToText::safe_html( $html );

// remove unsafe code (XSS attacks) and heals html - close tags etc
$purified_html = \Sunra\HtmlToText\HtmlToText::purify( $html );

// Remove all tags but allowed (coma separated - for example 'br,b')
$purified_html = \Sunra\HtmlToText\HtmlToText::filter( $html, $allowed_tags );
```

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 31% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![sunra](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/635370?v=4)](https://github.com/sunra "sunra (14 commits)")

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