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Mar 25, 2004, 1:49 AM

ryel01

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Mar 25, 2004, 1:49 AM

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How to Escape Hidden Description?

Hello!

I've got the description of a link hidden in javascript code, so when a user rolls over an icon it displays the description of that link in a pop up window. My problem is that if the description contains a ' or " character it doesn't work - I need to escape them, but am not sure how.

I've done something similar to this in an older version of linkSQL but it doesn't seem to work in my latest install. The following code..

Code:
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> 
<!-- 
features[<%ID%>] = "<%if Description%><%GT::CGI::html_escape(<%Description%>)%><%endif%>" ; 
//--> 
</SCRIPT>

produces an unknown tag error in the html...

Code:
features[10] = "Unknown Tag: 'GT::CGI::html_escape(<%Description')%>" ;

any idea how I can get this to work?

thanks

r

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Mar 25, 2004, 2:13 AM

Andy

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Mar 25, 2004, 2:13 AM

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Re: [ryel01] How to Escape Hidden Description? In reply to

You probably need to use;

<%GT::CGI::html_escape($Description)%>

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Mar 25, 2004, 2:26 AM

ryel01

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Mar 25, 2004, 2:26 AM

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that was easy. Unimpressed

thanks andy!!!

regan

Mar 25, 2004, 4:22 AM

ryel01

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Mar 25, 2004, 4:22 AM

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Re: [Andy] How to Escape Hidden Description? In reply to

One more for you - currently if there's a return (new line) entered into the description it won't display - is there another tag I can use to make these escaped as well so they display?

regan

Mar 25, 2004, 4:27 AM

Andy

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Mar 25, 2004, 4:27 AM

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Try this;

<%global_name($Field)%>

Code:
sub { 
   my $_in = $_[0]; 
   $_in = GT::CGI::html_unescape($_in); 
   $_in =~ s,\r|\n,\<BR\>,gi; 
   return $_in; 
}

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Apr 21, 2006, 8:53 PM

katabd

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Apr 21, 2006, 8:53 PM

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Hello

Any idea on how to solve the following problem:

We have added a field called article where users can submit articles through a textarea..

Now if the users types in the TEXT words separated by a return (new line).. when validating we can see the lines, but the article is printed on the category and detailed page without the return showing

Any idea how to fix this..
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Apr 22, 2006, 1:34 AM

Alba

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Apr 22, 2006, 1:34 AM

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Use the global

sub {
my $tags = shift;
my $article= $tags->{article};
$article= GT::CGI::html_escape($article);
$article=~ s/\n/<br\/>\n/g;
$article=~ s,\[([/\w]+)\],<$1>,g;
return $article;
}

Apr 22, 2006, 2:42 PM

katabd

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Apr 22, 2006, 2:42 PM

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Re: [Alba] How to Escape Hidden Description? In reply to

Thanks Alba

Do you you if their is a way to make this global a non field specific so we can specfify the filed name in the global tag used in the template?
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KaTaBd

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Apr 23, 2006, 12:18 AM

Alba

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Apr 23, 2006, 12:18 AM

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... not sure what you mean.

You can re-write the global for each field replacing 'article' with the field name,