[PHP] Outputting Valid HTML

[vern]

Is there a script or function out there that checks and replaces what would otherwise be just plain and possibly not valid HTML into valid HTML?

 

[Khayman]

easily? no since valid html would depend on which standard you used.

You could make some nice regular expression checks to make sure each tag has a closing tag and such

 

[SPeedY_B]

You'd need to include the entire HTML (or XHTML) specification that you're going to be using in a rather large PHP class and check the code for anything which doesn't follow the rules.

It'd be a rather large job, and I've never come across a script which does it. I'd just stick with the w3 Validator and their HTML Tidy application. Both can be found on http://w3.org/ if I recall.

 

[Geffy]

http://php.net/tidy

pecl tidy extension that you can squirt your markup through

 

[vern]

I've found a solution to my problem. I didn't need to use tidy since I didn't need to validate everything, just while inserting into the database. There are many scripts that basically do the same thing in PHP w/ slight differences among them.

Markdown: http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
Textile: http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/
SmartyPants: http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/
Texturize (within Wordpress): http://photomatt.net/tools/texturize/