Hey,

I tried the demo of html purifier and it was exactly what I needed. I copied the text that was displayed in my web browser (it is a bunch of data mixed in with html tags, that is all on the web page) and I put it in the demo. It came out clean just like I needed it. I then got the lite version and followed all the instructions, got no errors with libraries but when i echoed it to the browser, the data was displayed but remained uncleaned. I am wondering if im doing something wrong?

this is the code

include('/Users/teddy/Desktop/htmlpurifier-4-1.3.0-lite/library/HTMLPurifier.auto.php');

$clean_html = $purifier->purify ( $man); //$man contains the data that needs to be cleaned

echo $clean_html;

Could you post the code you used when it worked?

include('simple_html_dom.php');

include('/Users/teddy/Desktop/htmlpurifier-4-1.3.0-lite/library/HTMLPurifier.auto.php');

$html = file_get_html('http://www.lottolore.com/lotto649.html');

foreach($html->find('table[cellpadding=2]') as $e)

{

for ($i=0; $i < sizeof($e->innertext); $i++)

{

$test[$i]= $e->innertext; $a = htmlentities($e->innertext);

$file= file_get_contents($a);

$bob=preg_replace("/<([a-z][a-z0-9]*)[^>]*?(\/?)>/i",'<$1$2>', $a);

}

}

echo $bob;

//Thank you

This code doesn't use HTML Purifier...

Sorry I didnt include what I already posted first time around... This is the code when everything worked (though it does work even with html purifier, it just isnt cleaned).

Here is the whole thing:

include('simple_html_dom.php');

include('/Users/teddy/Desktop/htmlpurifier-4-1.3.0-lite/library/HTMLPurifier.auto.php');

$html = file_get_html('http://www.lottolore.com/lotto649.html');

foreach($html->find('table[cellpadding=2]') as $e)

{

for ($i=0; $i < sizeof($e->innertext); $i++)

{

$test[$i]= $e->innertext; $a = htmlentities($e->innertext);

$file= file_get_contents($a);

$man=preg_replace("/<([a-z][a-z0-9]*)[^>]*?(\/?)>/i",'<$1$2>', $a);

}

}

echo $man;

$clean_html = $purifier->purify ( $man); //$man contains the data that needs to be cleaned

echo $clean_html;

//Thank you

You're echoing $man and $clean_html. One of those is not clean.

Ugh sorry my mistake i am modifying code on the fly to try and make it work.

Here is the whole REAL thing:

include('simple_html_dom.php');

include('/Users/teddy/Desktop/htmlpurifier-4-1.3.0-lite/library/HTMLPurifier.auto.php');

$html = file_get_html('http://www.lottolore.com/lotto649.html');

foreach($html->find('table[cellpadding=2]') as $e)

{

for ($i=0; $i < sizeof($e->innertext); $i++)

{

$test[$i]= $e->innertext; $a = htmlentities($e->innertext);

$file= file_get_contents($a);

$man=preg_replace("/<([a-z][a-z0-9]*)[^>]*?(\/?)>/i",'<$1$2>', $a);

}

}

$clean_html = $purifier->purify ( $man); //$man contains the data that needs to be cleaned

echo $clean_html; // $clean_html should contain clean data but it does not

//Thank you

What output do you get?

the same as if i echoed $man on its own... it displays but like i said, it doesn't clean it like i hoped.

Please paste the specific output you receive. Use the CDATA tags in order to not need to escape the HTML on this forum.

<tr align="center"> <td colspan="5"><font size="4"><a name="past"><b>Past <font color="#FF0000">Lotto 6/49</font> Winning Numbers</a></b></font></td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td><a href="lotto649.html"><b>Latest</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6490811.html"><b>Aug 11</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6490711.html"><b>Jul 11</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6490611.html"><b>Jun 11</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6490511.html"><b>May 11</b></a></td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td><a href="l6490411.html"><b>Apr 11</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6490311.html"><b>Mar 11</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6490211.html"><b>Feb 11</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6490111.html"><b>Jan 11</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6491210.html"><b>Dec 10</b></a></td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td><a href="l6491110.html"><b>Nov 10</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6491010.html"><b>Oct 10</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6490910.html"><b>Sep 10</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6490810.html"><b>Aug 10</b></a></td> <td><a href="l6490710.html"><b>Jul 10</b></a></td> </tr>

Where is your $purifier object defined?

If you look at my prior post with the real complete code, you will see it is defined there.

Example from my code:

//some code before

$test[$i]= $e->innertext; $a = htmlentities($e->innertext);

$file= file_get_contents($a);

$man=preg_replace("/<([a-z][a-z0-9]*)[^>]*?(\/?)>/i",'<$1$2>', $a);

}

}

$clean_html = $purifier->purify ( $man); //here the purifier object is defined

echo $clean_html; // $clean_html should contain clean data but it does not

I'm looking for the line $purifier =.

Also, there is almost zero chance that HTML Purifier is misbehaving in this case, so it would be much easier for me if you posted, verbatim, real code that you ran.

I have not done that line. I thought it was declared with

$clean_html = $purifier->purify ( $man);

What needs to go after $purifier =. ?

I have posted my code exactly as it is in the .php file, I have not changed it for any reason. I assume my problem lies in the $Purifier declaration you mentioned.

Do you have this line?

    $purifier = new HTMLPurifier();

No for some reason I removed it and did not return it after I was done meddling with it trying to get it to work.

I added it and now NOTHING is coming up in the web browser when I echo $clean_html. I even did an error report at the very top, nothing comes up as well as put it in different places in the code (though I think global declaration would have been good enough).

Any other suggestions?

Paste your code. If it's self contained so I can run it, even better. The error is probably something silly.

<?


error_reporting(E_ALL);ini_set('display_errors', 1); 

include('simple_html_dom.php');
include('/Users/teddy/Desktop/htmlpurifier-4-1.3.0-lite/library/HTMLPurifier.auto.php');

$html = file_get_html('http://www.lottolore.com/lotto649.html');



foreach($html->find('table[cellpadding=2]') as $e)
{	    
	for ($i=0; $i < sizeof($e->innertext); $i++)
	{
    $test[$i]= $e->innertext;
	
$a = htmlentities($e->innertext);
$file= file_get_contents($a);


$jim=preg_replace("/<([a-z][a-z0-9]*)[^>]*?(\/?)>/i",'<$1$2>', $a);

$purifier= new HTMLPurifier();
$clean_html = $purifier->purify ($jim)
echo $clean_html;

	}

}




?>

thanks a bunch

You have a syntax error on line 26, which is why you see no errors.

Yes I did not catch that, thanks. Fixed it but still not working, give this a go if you can.

<?


error_reporting(E_ALL);ini_set('display_errors', 1); 

include('simple_html_dom.php');
include('/Users/teddy/Desktop/htmlpurifier-4-1.3.0-lite/library/HTMLPurifier.auto.php');

$html = file_get_html('http://www.lottolore.com/lotto649.html');



foreach($html->find('table[cellpadding=2]') as $e)
{	    
	for ($i=0; $i < sizeof($e->innertext); $i++)
	{
    $test[$i]= $e->innertext;
	
$a = htmlentities($e->innertext);



$jim=preg_replace("/<([a-z][a-z0-9]*)[^>]*?(\/?)>/i",'<$1$2>', $a);

$purifier= new HTMLPurifier();
$clean_html = $purifier->purify ($jim);
echo $clean_html;

	}

}



?>

Your code is deeply confused. Why are you htmlentities before running through HTML Purifier?

I need to first retrieve the code from another website. The code comes back jumbled up with a bunch of HTML tags within what I need. I then do some more cleaning within the php to get rid of data I don't require. HTML purifier was supposed to just clean out the HTML code that I have fetched so it becomes readable. Do you have some suggestions regarding what I just said? Do you think the problem lies here?

I think you're using the wrong tool. Are you trying to make the HTML safe for display or clean it up for further analysis?

Cllean up so there is no HTML and only plain text. Is that not what the demo did as well?

Use striptags.