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sammykrupa

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Registered: 12/05/04
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I have noticed that everyone here seems to be very fluent in PHP. So here is my PHP problem (complete PHP noob here, watch out):

I would like to use this PHP script (for HTML to TEXT):

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/php/dnld.php?file=0&action=1

The notes of the code say:

"To use this library, put the following line in your script before the part that needs it:

require('PATH_TO_THIS_FILE/html2text.php');"

I would be very happy if someone here could tell me how to enter the variable of the URL into this script. The way I would want to do it would be to have a webpage were you could enter a URL and have it converted.

Thanks!
Sam Krupa
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sammykrupa

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Okay, new problem.

This code:
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<?php

// Include the class definition file.
require_once('class.html2text.inc');

// The "source" HTML you want to convert, stored in a file.
$filename =

// Instantiate a new instance of the class. Passing the filename
// followed by the "true" flag tells the class to find the HTML
// in the specified file. Should work on remote files, too.
$h2t =& new html2text($filename, true);

// The HTML is likely full of relative links, so let's specify
// an absolute source.
$h2t->set_base_url('home/');

// Simply call the get_text() method for the class to convert
// the HTML to the plain text. Store it into the variable.
$text = $h2t->get_text();

// Or, alternatively, you can print it out directly:
$h2t->print_text();

?>


 


I specify "filename" this way:

http://www.theplaceforitall.com/ipodinator/convert.php?filename=FILE.html

This only lets me specify local files. How do I specify URLs?
Sam Krupa
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vadertech

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ignore this post. Doh! - that was a mistake
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