April 26th, 2005

New York PHP's own John Coggeshall, Technical Consultant for Zend Technologies, will be presenting on his Tidy extension. This talk will focus on introducing the new Tidy extension for PHP 5 and how it can be used to make working with and generating properly-formed HTML in a fast and effective manner. Specifically this session will focus on:

• How to use Tidy to diagnose existing HTML for errors


• Using Tidy to clean and repair HTML documents


• An overview of the most useful Tidy options


• Using the Tidy OO interface to navigate the HTML doc tree


• Examples of how to navigate HTML effectively using Tidy

With the introduction of the Tidy extension, users will no longer need to rely on messy regular expressions to mine data such as URLs, e-mail addresses, or entire tables from HTML documents. Furthermore, thanks to the diagnosing technologies provided by Tidy HTML documents can be diagnosed and even corrected on the fly to ensure complete HTML or XHTML compliance before being sent to the end user. This talk assumes users are familiar with basic PHP object-oriented and procedural constructs.

Thanks to Dan Krook and Platinum sponsor IBM for providing a great presentation space with seating for plenty.

As a service to our community, New York PHP Community meetings are always free and open to the public.

Come prepared with a business card to enter book raffles.