What are some best practices for extracting and manipulating text from HTML pages using PHP?

When extracting and manipulating text from HTML pages using PHP, it is best to use a combination of PHP functions like strip_tags() to remove HTML tags and htmlentities() to convert special characters. Regular expressions can also be helpful for more complex text extraction tasks. 

// Example code snippet for extracting and manipulating text from HTML pages using PHP
$html = file_get_contents('https://example.com/page.html');
$text = strip_tags($html); // Remove HTML tags
$text = htmlentities($text); // Convert special characters
echo $text;

Keywords

DOMDocument DOMXPath strip_tags preg_match htmlentities

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