set ( 'Core.Encoding', 'UTF-8' ); // replace with your encoding $config->set ( 'HTML.Doctype', 'XHTML 1.0 Transitional' ); // replace with your doctype $purifier = new HTMLPurifier ( $config ); // untrusted input HTML $html = 'Simple and short'; $pure_html = $purifier->purify ( $html ); echo '
' . htmlspecialchars ( $pure_html ) . '
'; // vim: et sw=4 sts=4