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PHP: Fix broken html tags in string and use html entities
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| /** | |
| * Fix for broken html tags inside strings for php. | |
| * | |
| * By using passing the html through DOMDocument and converting the html | |
| * entities we are left with beautiful well formatted code. Huzzah! | |
| * | |
| * "Nothing is ever easy" -Zedd, Wizards First Rule | |
| * | |
| * @var DOMDocument | |
| */ | |
| $doc = new DOMDocument(); | |
| $doc->substituteEntities = false; | |
| $content = mb_convert_encoding($sValue, 'html-entities', 'utf-8'); | |
| $doc->loadHTML($content); | |
| $sValue = $doc->saveHTML(); |
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Works beautifully! Extremely useful for parsing and fixing malformed html from user input (e.g. from a WYSIWYG editor) before inserting it into e.g. an html email body. Thanks!