PHP “pretty print” HTML (not Tidy)

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you’re right, there seems to be no indentation for HTML (others are also confused). XML works, even with loaded code.

<?php
function tidyHTML($buffer) {
    // load our document into a DOM object
    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    // we want nice output
    $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
    $dom->loadHTML($buffer);
    $dom->formatOutput = true;
    return($dom->saveHTML());
}

// start output buffering, using our nice
// callback function to format the output.
ob_start("tidyHTML");

?>
<html>
    <head>
    <title>foo bar</title><meta name="bar" value="foo"><body><h1>bar foo</h1><p>It's like comparing apples to oranges.</p></body></html>
<?php
// this will be called implicitly, but we'll
// call it manually to illustrate the point.
ob_end_flush();
?>

result: 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>foo bar</title>
<meta name="bar" value="foo">
</head>
<body>
<h1>bar foo</h1>
<p>It's like comparing apples to oranges.</p>
</body>
</html>

the same with saveXML() …

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>foo bar</title>
    <meta name="bar" value="foo"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>bar foo</h1>
    <p>It's like comparing apples to oranges.</p>
  </body>
</html>

probably forgot to set preserveWhiteSpace=false before loadHTML?

disclaimer: i stole most of the demo code from tyson clugg/php manual comments. lazy me.

UPDATE: i now remember some years ago i tried the same thing and ran into the same problem. i fixed this by applying a dirty workaround (wasn’t performance critical): i just somehow converted around between SimpleXML and DOM until the problem vanished. i suppose the conversion got rid of those nodes. maybe load with dom, import with simplexml_import_dom, then output the string, parse this with DOM again and then printed it pretty. as far as i remember this worked (but it was really slow).

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