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Rasoul Zabihi
Rasoul Zabihi

Reputation: 2715

How to extract HTML from PHP files?

I have a bunch of PHP files, from which I want to extract the final HTML result. For example if the PHP file content be something like:

<ul id='<% echo($newsListId) %>'>
   // PHP loop to create <li> elements
</ul>

What should be extracted is:

<ul id='news-list'>
   <li>First News</li>
   <li>Second News</li>
   <li>Third News</li>
   <li>Fourth News</li>
</ul>

What should I do? Is there a software which can do that for me?

Note: There is no dynamic content in PHP files. In other words, no connection to any external database is made in PHP files. Actually, these PHP files belong to a template I downloaded from somewhere and now I want to change their language to something else (like ASP.NET for example).

Upvotes: 2

Views: 417

Answers (3)

thwd
thwd

Reputation: 24818

yes, you can echo them into an output buffer (PHP code):

ob_start();
include('your_file.php');
$contents = ob_get_clean();

now $contents hold the parsed contents of that file and you can write it into another file with:

file_put_contents('filename.html', $contents);

cheers!

Upvotes: 1

haynar
haynar

Reputation: 6030

run php files on your server in order to get the result, then view source in browser and copy and paste the output

Upvotes: 1

Shai Mishali
Shai Mishali

Reputation: 9382

It would be easiest to install a local apache on your machine (Like MAMP or WAMP), and then build a PHP script that would loop over the folder structure and read each file with file_get_contents() through the server.

If you try to read myFile.php , you will get the source, But if its parsed through the server first, meaning - reading http://localhost/myFile.php , will returned the parsed result from PHP.

Shai.

Upvotes: 3

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