html - DOM manipulation in PHP

Question

I am looking for good methods of manipulating HTML in PHP. For example, the problem I currently have is dealing with malformed HTML.

I am getting input that looks something like this:

<div>This is some <b>text

As you noticed, the HTML is missing closing tags. I could use regex or an XML Parser to solve this problem. However, it is likely that I will have to do other DOM manipulation in the future. I wonder if there are any good PHP libraries that handle DOM manipulation similar to how Javascript deals with DOM manipulation.

Answer 1

PHP has a PECL extension that gives you access to the features of HTML Tidy. Tidy is a pretty powerful library that should be able to take code like that and close tags in an intelligent manner.

I use it to clean up malformed XML and HTML sent to me by a classified ad system prior to import.