HFD Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Hi, I am currently coding a system where I can have administrators of my website post up content that is posted onto the website - a lot of the time, it may be required to output HTML code as plain text, so using htmlspecialchars would be helpful. However, I want the administrators to also be able to use HTML, so I'm hoping I can do the following: [nobbc]When the user enters (code here) (like BBCode), it'll convert the 'code' tags to HTML DIV tags, so all the code can be in a DIV container which would be stylized using CSS. I have a very vague idea on how to accomplish this, using replace functions etc....but how would I make everything between the tags into a variable, so I can apply htmlspecialchars on it? Thanks [/nobbc] Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/121763-using-htmlspecialchars/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 You'd use preg_replace to do this, using [tt]\ [code\](.*?)\[/code\][/tt] as the regex pattern, eg <style type="text/css"> .code { white-space: pre; font-family: Courier New; border: 1px solid #333; background-color: #EEE; padding: 10px; } </style> <?php $text = <<<TEST <h1>HTML Tutorial</h1> <p>You should start every HTML page with: [code]<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> </html>[ /code]</p> <b>Unaffected <i>HTML</i></b> TEST; $text = preg_replace('#\[code\](.*?)\[/code\]#ies', "'<div class=\"code\">'.htmlspecialchars('$1').'</div>'", $text); echo $text; ?> NOTE: change [nobbc]</html>[ /code]</p> to </html>[/code]</p> (forum was messing up my post) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/121763-using-htmlspecialchars/#findComment-628189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HFD Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 Thanks lots that's exactly what I wanted Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/121763-using-htmlspecialchars/#findComment-628190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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