voku/html2text

Only a Fork of -> html2text: Converts HTML to formatted plain text

5.0.5 2026-04-24 01:12 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.1.0
• voku/portable-utf8: ^6.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^7.5 || ^8.5 || ^9.6

GPL-2.0-or-later

• text
• email
• html
• html-to-text
• HTMLToText
• HtmlIntoText

README

📝 Html2Text

Description

Convert HTML to formatted plain text, e.g. for text mails.

Installation

The recommended installation way is through Composer.

$ composer require voku/html2text

Basic Usage

$html = new \voku\Html2Text\Html2Text('Hello, &quot;<b>world</b>&quot;');

echo $html->getText();  // Hello, "WORLD"

Extended Usage

Each element (h1, li, div, etc) can have the following options:

• 'case' => convert case (Html2Text::OPTION_NONE, Html2Text::OPTION_UPPERCASE, Html2Text::OPTION_LOWERCASE , Html2Text::OPTION_UCFIRST, Html2Text::OPTION_TITLE)
• 'prepend' => prepend a string
• 'append' => append a string

For example:

$html = '<h1>Should have "AAA" changed to BBB</h1><ul><li>• Custom bullet should be removed</li></ul><img alt="The Linux Tux" src="tux.png" />';
$expected = 'SHOULD HAVE "BBB" CHANGED TO BBB' . "\n\n" . '- Custom bullet should be removed |' . "\n\n" . '[IMAGE]: "The Linux Tux"';

$html2text = new Html2Text(
    $html,
    array(
        'width'    => 0,
        'elements' => array(
            'h1' => array(
              'case' => Html2Text::OPTION_UPPERCASE, 
              'replace' => array('AAA', 'BBB')),
            'li' => array(
              'case' => Html2Text::OPTION_NONE, 
              'replace' => array('•', ''), 
              'prepend' => "- ",
              'append' => " |",
            ),
        ),
    )
);

$html2text->setPrefixForImages('[IMAGE]: ');
$html2text->setPrefixForLinks('[LINKS]: ');
$html2text->getText(); // === $expected

Live Demo

• HTML | TEXT

• https://moelleken.org/url_to_text.php?url=https://ADD_YOUR_URL_HERE

History

This library started life on the blog of Jon Abernathy http://www.chuggnutt.com/html2text

A number of projects picked up the library and started using it - among those was RoundCube mail. They made a number of updates to it over time to suit their webmail client.

Now this is a extend fork of the original Html2Text.

Support

For support and donations please visit Github | Issues | PayPal | Patreon.

For status updates and release announcements please visit Releases | Twitter | Patreon.

For professional support please contact me.

Thanks

• Thanks to GitHub (Microsoft) for hosting the code and a good infrastructure including Issues-Managment, etc.
• Thanks to IntelliJ as they make the best IDEs for PHP and they gave me an open source license for PhpStorm!
• Thanks to GitHub Actions for the automated CI pipeline.
• Thanks to StyleCI for the simple but powerful code style check.
• Thanks to PHPStan && Psalm for really great Static analysis tools and for discover bugs in the code!