PHP-Typography

A PHP library for improving your web typography:

Hyphenation — over 50 languages supported
Space control, including:
- widow protection
- gluing values to units
- forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses
Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of:
- quote marks (‘single’, “double”)
- dashes ( – )
- ellipses (…)
- trademarks, copyright & service marks (™ ©)
- math symbols (5×5×5=53)
- fractions (¹⁄₁₆)
- ordinal suffixes (1^st, 2^nd)
CSS hooks for styling:
- ampersands,
- uppercase words,
- numbers,
- initial quotes & guillemets.

Requirements

PHP 7.4.0 or above
The mbstring extension

Installation

The best way to use this package is through Composer:

$ composer require mundschenk-at/php-typography
$ vendor/bin/update-iana.php

Basic Usage

Create a Settings object and enable the fixes you want.
Create a PHP_Typography instance and use it to process HTML fragments (or whole documents) using your defined settings.

$settings = new \PHP_Typography\Settings();
$settings->set_hyphenation( true );
$settings->set_hyphenation_language( 'en-US' );

$typo = new \PHP_Typography\PHP_Typography();

$hyphenated_html = $typo->process( $html_snippet, $settings );

Roadmap

Please have a look at ROADMAP file for upcoming releases.

License

PHP-Typography is licensed under the GNU General Public License 2 or later - see the LICENSE file for details.