Purify

A Laravel wrapper for HTMLPurifier by ezyang.

Index

• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• Configuration
• Cache
• Practices
• Upgrading from v4 to v5
• Upgrading from v5 to v6

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.4
• Laravel >= 7.0

Installation

To install Purify, run the following command in the root of your project:

Then, publish the configuration file using:

Usage

Cleaning a String

To clean a users input, simply use the clean method:

Cleaning an Array

Need to purify an array of user input? Just pass in an array:

Dynamic Configuration

Need a different configuration for a single input? Pass in a configuration array into the second parameter:

Note: Configuration passed into the second parameter is not merged with your default configuration.

Configuration

Inside the configuration file, multiple HTMLPurifier configuration sets can be specified, similar to Laravel's built-in database, mail and logging config. Simply call Purify::config($name)->clean($input) to use another set of configuration.

For example, if we need to have a separate configuration for a comment system, we can setup this configuration in the config/purify.php file:

Then, utilize it anywhere in your application by its name:

For HTMLPurifier configuration documentation, please visit the HTMLPurifier Website:

http://htmlpurifier.org/live/configdoc/plain.html

Cache

After running Purify once, HTMLPurifier will auto-cache your serialized definitions into the serializer.cache definition you have configured in config/purify.php.

[!Important]

If you have configured Purify to utilize the CacheDefinitionCache in the serializer option, this command will issue a Cache::clear() on the cache driver you have configured it to use.

If you have configured Purify to utilize the FilesystemDefinitionCache in the serializer option, this command will clear the directory that you have configured it to store in.

It is recommended to setup a unique filesystem path or disk (via config/filesystems.php) or cache store (via config/cache.php) for Purify if you intended to clear the serialized definitions using this command.

If you ever update the definitions configuration option, you must clear this HTMLPurifier cache.

You may do so via a purify:clear command:

Disabling Caching

To disable caching all together, you may set the serializer path to null:

This will cause your definitions to be serialized upon each application request.

This is especially useful when debugging or tweaking definition files to see immediate results.

[!Important]

Caching is recommended in production environments.

Practices

If you're looking into sanitization, you're likely wanting to sanitize inputted user HTML content that is then stored in your database to be rendered onto your application.

In this scenario, it's likely best practice to sanitize on the way out instead of the on the way in. The database doesn't care what text it contains.

This way you can allow anything to be inserted in the database, and have strong sanization rules on the way out.

To accomplish this, you may use the provided PurifyHtmlOnGet cast class on your Eloquent model:

Or, implement it yourself via an Eloquent attribute mutator:

You can even configure the configuration that is used when casting by appending it's name to the cast:

This helps tremendously if you change your sanization requirements later down the line, then all rendered content will follow these sanization rules.

If you'd like to purify HTML while setting the value, you can use the inverse PurifyHtmlOnSet cast instead.

Custom HTML definitions

The HTML.Doctype configuration option denotes the schema to ultimately abide to. You may want to extend these schema definitions to support custom elements or attributes (e.g. <foo>...</foo>, or <span foo="...">) by specifying a custom HTML element "definitions".

Purify ships with additional HTML5 definitions that HTMLPurifier does not (yet) support of the box (via the Html5Definition class).

To create your own HTML definition, create a new class and have it implement Definition:

Then, reference this class in the config/purify.php file in the definitions key:

If you'd like to extend the built-in default Html5Definition, you can apply it to your custom definition:

Basecamp Trix Definition

Here's an example for customizing the definition in order to support Basecamp's Trix WYSIWYG editor (credit to Antonio Primera & Daniel Sun):

Custom CSS definitions

It's possible to override the CSS definitions, this allows you to customize what inline styles you allow and their properties and values. This can help fill in missing values for properties such as text-align, which by default is missing start and end values. You can do this by creating a CSS definition.

To create your own CSS definition, create a new class and have it implement CssDefinition:

Then, reference this class in the config/purify.php file in the css-definitions key:

See the class HTMLPurifier_CSSDefinition in the HTMLPurifier library for other examples of what can be changed.

Upgrading from v4 to v5

To upgrade from v4, install the latest version by running the below command in the root of your project:

Then, navigate into your published config/purify.php configuration file and copy the settings array -- except for the following keys:

• HTML.DocType:
• Core.Encoding:
• Cache.SerializerPath:

Important: If you've created a unique storage path for Cache.SerializerPath, take note of this as well, so you can migrate it into the new configuration file.

Once copied, delete the config/purify.php file, and run the below command:

Then, inside the newly published config/purify.php configuration file, paste the keys (overwriting the current) into the configs.default array:

If you've created a unique serializer path (previously set via the old Cache.SerializerPath configuration key mentioned above), then you may reconfigure this in the new serializer configuration key:

You're all set!

Upgrading from v5 to v6

In v6, the HTMLPurifier Serializer storage mechanism was updated for Laravel Vapour support, allowing you to store the serialized HTMLPurifier definitions in a Redis cache, or an external filesystem.

To upgrade from v5, install the latest version by running the below command in the root of your project:

Then, navigate into your published config/purify.php configuration file and replace the serializer configuration option with the below:

This will update the syntax used to control the serializer cache mechanism. You may now uncomment the below serializer cache definition if you would like to use a Laravel Cache driver (such as Redis) to store the serialized definitions.