Text formatter differences

[RMcGirr83]

Morning,

I have an extension and when testing it am presented with an issue. In 3.1.x the extension would post into a designated forum and look like this

in 3.2 though it looks like this

The issue is that the name, while being generated using get_username_string function isn't being parsed in 3.2 as it was in 3.x.

This is how the name is being stored in the db in 3.2

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<a href="./memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2" style="color: #AA0000;" class="username-coloured">Admin</a>

and how it's being stored in 3.1.x

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<a href="./../memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2" style="color: #AA0000;" class="username-coloured">admin</a>

the < is being changed to a <, similarly the > is being changed to a >

I am not sure if I need to apply something to the extension or what. Any advice would be appreciated.

[3Di]

Same here using submit_post function while porting an extension to RHEA.

I used html_entity_decode prior to pass the variable to generate_text_for_storage

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		$topic_title_plain = html_entity_decode($topic_title, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
		$topic_content_plain = html_entity_decode($topic_content, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

Not sure if this is the more elegant way to solve the issue but works just fine.

[david63]

Thanks Rich - I have exactly the same problem with one of my extensions.

I have tried manually creating it, replacing various characters - all to no avail.

[3Di]

^^ see above david..

[RMcGirr83]

I am actually using the message parser instead of generate text for storage. When I do a var_dump after $message_parser->parse the output looks fine but it somehow gets translated into html characaters when inserted into the database.

Using html_entity_decode on $message_parser->message the post is stored as

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<r><B><s>[b]</s>Name:<e>[/b]</e></B> <a href="./memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2" style="color: #AA0000;" class="username-coloured">Admin</a><br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>Email Address:<e>[/b]</e></B> <EMAIL email="me@me.com">me@me.com</EMAIL><br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>IP:<e>[/b]</e></B> 127.0.0.1<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>Reason:<e>[/b]</e></B> test<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>Subject:<e>[/b]</e></B> testing<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>Has entered the following message into the contact form:<e>[/b]</e></B><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> just a test<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE></r>

but displays as

the entire a href tag is completely removed from the data upon display.

Guess I'll stop for now and go mow the grass.

[Paul]

You should use BBCode instead of HTML in posts.

[RMcGirr83]

Hi Paul, how would you suggest I pass a username link using bbcode?

[david63]

Hi Paul, how would you suggest I pass a username link using bbcode?

I would be interested to know that as well

[JoshyPHP]

Have you tried just using BBCodes? Generally I would advise against modifying the data that's stored in the database.

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[url=./memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2][color=#AA0000]Admin[/color][/url]

[RMcGirr83]

I'll give that a try. FWIW, I'm not trying to modify the data that's stored in the database. I'm trying to get the data that is stored in the database to parse correctly.