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Install
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How to install HTML Purifier
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HTML Purifier is designed to run out of the box, so actually using the library
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is extremely easy. (Although, if you were looking for a step-by-step
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installation GUI, you've come to the wrong place!) The impatient can scroll
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down to the bottom of this INSTALL document to see the code, but you really
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should make sure a few things are properly done.
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Todo: Convert to using the array syntax for configuration.
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1. Compatibility
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HTML Purifier works in both PHP 4 and PHP 5, from PHP 4.3.9 and up. It has no
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core dependencies with other libraries. (Whoopee!)
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Optional extensions are iconv (usually installed) and tidy (also common).
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If you use UTF-8 and don't plan on pretty-printing HTML, you can get away with
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not having either of these extensions.
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2. Including the library
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Simply use:
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require_once '/path/to/library/HTMLPurifier.auto.php';
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...and you're good to go. Since HTML Purifier's codebase is fairly
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large, I recommend only including HTML Purifier when you need it.
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If you don't like your include_path to be fiddled around with, simply set
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HTML Purifier's library/ directory to the include path yourself and then:
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require_once 'HTMLPurifier.php';
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Only the contents in the library/ folder are necessary, so you can remove
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everything else when using HTML Purifier in a production environment.
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3. Preparing the proper output environment
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HTML Purifier is all about web-standards, so accordingly your webpages should
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be standards compliant. HTML Purifier can deal with these doctypes:
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* XHTML 1.0 Transitional (default)
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* XHTML 1.0 Strict
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* HTML 4.01 Transitional
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* HTML 4.01 Strict
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...and these character encodings:
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* UTF-8 (default)
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* Any encoding iconv supports (support is crippled for i18n though)
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The defaults are there for a reason: they are best-practice choices that
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should not be changed lightly. For those of you in the dark, you can determine
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the doctype from this code in your HTML documents:
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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...and the character encoding from this code:
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<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=ENCODING">
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For legacy codebases these declarations may be missing. If that is the case,
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STOP, and read up on character encodings and doctypes (in that order). Here
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are some links:
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* http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
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* http://alistapart.com/stories/doctype/
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You may currently be vulnerable to XSS and other security threats, and HTML
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Purifier won't be able to fix that.
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4. Configuration
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HTML Purifier is designed to run out-of-the-box, but occasionally HTML
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Purifier needs to be told what to do. If you answered no to any of these
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questions, read on, otherwise, you can skip to the next section (or, if you're
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into configuring things just for the heck of it, skip to 4.3).
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* Am I using UTF-8?
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* Am I using XHTML 1.0 Transitional?
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If you answered no to any of these questions, instantiate a configuration
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object and read on:
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$config = HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault();
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4.1. Setting a different character encoding
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You really shouldn't use any other encoding except UTF-8, especially if you
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plan to support multilingual websites (read section three for more details).
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However, switching to UTF-8 is not always immediately feasible, so we can
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adapt.
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HTML Purifier uses iconv to support other character encodings, as such,
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any encoding that iconv supports <http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/>
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HTML Purifier supports with this code:
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$config->set('Core', 'Encoding', /* put your encoding here */);
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An example usage for Latin-1 websites (the most common encoding for English
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websites):
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$config->set('Core', 'Encoding', 'ISO-8859-1');
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Note that HTML Purifier's support for non-Unicode encodings is crippled by the
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fact that any character not supported by that encoding will be silently
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dropped, EVEN if it is ampersand escaped. This is a current limitation of
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HTML Purifier that we are NOT actively working to fix. Patches are welcome,
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but there are so many other gotchas and problems in I18N for non-Unicode
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encodings that this functionality is low priority. See
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<http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html> for a more
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detailed lowdown on the topic.
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4.2. Setting a different doctype
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For those of you stuck using HTML 4.01 Transitional, you can disable
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XHTML output like this:
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$config->set('Core', 'XHTML', false);
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I recommend that you use XHTML, although not as much as I recommend UTF-8. If
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your HTML 4.01 page validates, good for you!
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Currently, we can only guarantee transitional-complaint output, future
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versions will also allow strict-compliant output.
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4.3. Other settings
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There are more configuration directives which can be read about
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here: <http://htmlpurifier.org/live/configdoc/plain.html> They're a bit boring,
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but they can help out for those of you who like to exert maximum control over
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your code.
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5. Using the code
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The interface is mind-numbingly simple:
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$purifier = new HTMLPurifier();
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$clean_html = $purifier->purify( $dirty_html );
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...or, if you're using the configuration object:
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$purifier = new HTMLPurifier($config);
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$clean_html = $purifier->purify( $dirty_html );
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That's it! For more examples, check out docs/examples/ (they aren't very
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different though). Also, SLOW gives advice on what to do if HTML Purifier
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is slowing down your application.
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6. Quick install
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If your website is in UTF-8 and XHTML Transitional, use this code:
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<?php
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require_once '/path/to/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier.auto.php';
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$purifier = new HTMLPurifier();
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$clean_html = $purifier->purify($dirty_html);
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?>
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If your website is in a different encoding or doctype, use this code:
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<?php
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require_once '/path/to/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier.auto.php';
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$config = HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault();
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$config->set('Core', 'Encoding', 'ISO-8859-1'); //replace with your encoding
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$config->set('Core', 'XHTML', true); //replace with false if HTML 4.01
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$purifier = new HTMLPurifier($config);
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$clean_html = $purifier->purify($dirty_html);
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?> |