Gossamer Forum: Products: Gossamer Links: Development, Plugins and Globals: clean description

Apr 20, 2009, 6:05 AM

nir

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Apr 20, 2009, 6:05 AM

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clean description

Is there global that I can use that take the Description and clean it form all html code. I mean if in the Description there are <href></a> and more it will not display this code or it change this to < and >.

Apr 20, 2009, 6:22 AM

Andy

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Apr 20, 2009, 6:22 AM

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Try something like this:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...%3F_P305257/#p305257

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Apr 20, 2009, 6:42 AM

nir

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Apr 20, 2009, 6:42 AM

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Thanks

Apr 20, 2009, 7:12 AM

nir

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Apr 20, 2009, 7:12 AM

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I notice that it not delete <a href= and </a> Shocked

Apr 20, 2009, 7:16 AM

Andy

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Apr 20, 2009, 7:16 AM

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Try this global:

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sub { 
   use HTML::Parse; 
   use HTML::FormatText; 
   my $plain_text = HTML::FormatText->new->format(parse_html($_[0]));    
   return $plain_text; 
}

This will require you to have the modules HTML::Parse and HTML::FormatText installed (if they are not, your host should be able to do it easily for you)

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Andy: Apr 20, 2009, 8:33 AM

Apr 20, 2009, 8:32 AM

nir

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Apr 20, 2009, 8:32 AM

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Thanks,

I still get the and , is there anything that I can do?

Apr 20, 2009, 8:36 AM

Andy

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Apr 20, 2009, 8:36 AM

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Sorry, forgot to add:

Code:
return $plain_text;

..after:

Code:
my $plain_text = HTML::FormatText->new->format(parse_html($_[0]));

...not sure if you added that in? (otherwise it shouldn't have worked =))

If those < tags are still being a problem, just try adding this...

Code:
  $plain_text =~ s/\Q<p>//sig; 
  $plain_text =~ s/\Q<\/p>//sig;

... after:

Code:
my $plain_text = HTML::FormatText->new->format(parse_html($_[0]));

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Apr 20, 2009, 4:11 PM

Wychwood

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Apr 20, 2009, 4:11 PM

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Code:
$plain_text =~ s|</?p>||sig;