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Modify all links in HTML Purifier

I am using HTML purifier to remove all unnecessary/malicious html tags.

$html = 'dirty html provided by user';
$config = HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault();
$config->set('HTML.Allowed', 'p,a[href], ... other tags);
$purifier = new HTMLPurifier($config);;
$output = $purifier->purify($html);

It works really nice, but I want to do a little bit more. I want to change all my <a href='link'>...</a> to something else like <a href='somefunc(link)' rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> ... </a>.

After searching for a little bit, I found the following relevant link, but the problem is that it requires patching a complex library (which is not really a good idea, also the solution is kind of complicated).

Reading through their forum post, it looks like there is solution for adding nofollow parameter is $config->set("HTML.Nofollow", true);, but I still fail to find how can modify every link.

My current solution is to parse purified html by myself and to modify a link, but I think that there is a way to do this through HTML Purifier.

Solution

  • Actually I found partial solution on one of the links on the forum.

    This is what I need to do:

    $config->set('HTML.Nofollow', true);
$config->set('HTML.TargetBlank', true);

    So the full thing looks like this:

    $config = HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault();
$config->set('HTML.Nofollow', true);
$config->set('HTML.TargetBlank', true);
$config->set('HTML.Allowed', 'a,b,strong,i,em,u');
$purifier = new HTMLPurifier($config);