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Convert HTML to plain-text

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Demonstrates how to convert HTML to plain-text.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$h2t = new CkHtmlToText();

// Set the HTML:

$html = '<html><body><p>This is a test.</p><blockquote>Here is text within a blockquote</blockquote></body></html>';

$plainText = $h2t->toText($html);

print $plainText . "\n";

// The output looks like this:

// This is a test.
// 
//     Here is text within a blockquote

?>