Purifying a URL

I've had success using HTMLPurifier to sanitize HTML, but I can't seem to use it to properly strip a URL.

I assume I'm supposed to be using HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_URI(). The problem is that I have no idea what $context is supposed to be set to. I've looked through the documentation, and all it says is:

$context	Mandatory HTMLPurifier_AttrContext object. 

A few dozen google searches and code reviews later and I'm still no clearer on what that's supposed to be.

My code looks like this:

$config = HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault();
$purifier = new HTMLPurifier_AttrDef_URI();
$clean_html = $purifier->validate($unsafeHTML, $config, $context);

That gives me: Fatal error: Call to a member function register() on a non-object in __FILE__ __LINE__

Can anyone explain what I'm supposed to set $context to in order to get that to work?

That's a typo; it should be HTMLPurifier_Context. I don't remember exactly what context variables need to be set; try it and see which missing ones HTML Purifier complains about.

Aha! You were correct. HTMLPurifier_Context worked, HTMLPurifier_AttrContext was broken.

It may be worth someone looking over:

http://htmlpurifier.org/doxygen/html/classHTMLPurifier__AttrDef__URI.html#a25866f9117d08ef97a81d86662edc1fb

Unless I'm mistaken, that documentation lead me to an incorrect conclusion. That said, I'm very new to HTML Purifier.

Thank you, Ambush!

Hmm, I bet those docs need updating.

I cannot able to use it for purifying URL as it converts non-english urls to ntilde;, atilde; and amp; kind of things.