Heya all,

I'd like to parse the Display Email field like normal HTML when I show it in a user's profile. Reason for this is that I'd like for my users to post their email addresses as Character Entities to make it harder for robots to harvest and cut down on spam.

Here's my email address:
sangiro@dropzone.com

At this stage if I enter the entities they show up as such on the screen. When I enter them on a normal HTML page it obviously works. Any help?

PS - Here's a nice encoder for those of you who want to use this on your site.

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Sangiro

Text is always HTML escaped to prevent any XSS vulnerabilities. Instead, you'll probably want your users to post their email addresses normally and write a global (or modify the code - depends on where you want this done), to do the translation.

Adrian

I wrote a global to do this, but I'm having the same problem. Is there any way to prevent gforum from HTML escaping the text in this limited context?

Here's the global:

sub {
use HTML::Entities();
return HTML::Entities::encode_entities(shift);
}

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Try this;


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Thanks Andy. Seems to work perfectly.

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How do you call your global in your templates?

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Sangiro

<%global_name($field_name)%>

...should do the trick :)

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I actually tried that with no luck.. which is why I asked. Not sure if it was my tag call or the global that wasn't working. It still outputs exactly what I have in the database field to the HTML.

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Sangiro

What if you change "shift" to "$_[0]" ?

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No joy...

Still posts the actual data.

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Sangiro

I've just been trying it on my server too, and it won't work :( I guess my global (in the other thread) will have to do.

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I'd like to hear from hennagaijin on how he calls this global. There are some limitations on the other global that I think this one will work around.

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Sangiro