Only allow a few markup tags, strip_tags() allows a limited lIst to be
kept
Bastien
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On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Daniel Kolbo <kolb0...@umn.edu> wrote:
Phpster wrote:
What about stripping out all the 'nuances' and just reducing it to
just the text where you then control the display and using your
templates and css?
Bastien
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On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Daniel Kolbo <kolb0...@umn.edu> wrote:
Hello,
I've been using PHP and Smarty for several years now and I am
happy with this "division" of data from presentation. With this
philosophy in mind, i am a bit perplexed as to how to handle the
text on my sites. That is, the text is data, so i am motivated to
store the text in a database, files, or the like, but then text is
loaded with little markup nuances (random italics/weight/colors,
etc...) that make template design rather ugly. This motivates me
to put markup (maybe even my own brand of markup) around the text,
and to store this markup-text combination in a database. But I
don't like this either, because a lot of the people writing the
content/text know word/writer not markup. So i am motivated to
have them save their text as .html, and I parse this file and
modify accordingly. However, i don't like this either as not all
word/writer styles are 1-to-1 with CSS. Without any options I am
back to thinking "hard code" the text with markup in included
templates, but it hurts just thinking of updating/modifying.
I have looked (briefly) at Web Content Management Systems, but
this seems like overkill really, maybe i'm ignorant.
What would the community suggest? The text can take on many forms,
introduction text, about text, product information, articles,
blurbs, (some changes daily, some doesn't) etc...where does all
this text live in 'properly' designed site.
Thanks in advance,
dK
Hello Bastien,
The difficulty with implementing your suggestions is that say in a
paragraph of text that has random bold or italics (etc...) (as
determined by the one drafting the text), how would i recover these
bold/italics if i remove them?
dK
