On 03/29/2010 02:21 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:25 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
On 03/29/2010 01:22 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 07:24 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>> On 03/29/2010 07:22 AM, solo hsi wrote:
>> > i think you just need function urldecode()....
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Skip Evans<s...@bigskypenguin.com
<mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com> <mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com>> wrote:
>> >> Hey all,
>> >>
>> >> What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't
>> >> translate properly from say news stories to HTML?
>> >>
>> >> For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead
>> >> in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their
>> >> sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes,
>> >> double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky
>> >> unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to
>> >> edit them to replace them with standard characters.
>> >>
>> >> Is there way to filter this text through a function that will
>> >> convert them to web friendly chars?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Skip
>> >>
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>> >
>> >
>>
>> No, only urlencode() won't do the job. He's saying more about the long
>> spaces and quotes, etc.
>>
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>
> I wrote something that converts these characters, which you'll most
> often find when copying text from MS Office:
>
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/coding_php_remove_ms_crap.php
>
> The second argument to the function just tells it to remove all the
> hidden meta tags that MS Office chucks into text that you copy into a
> rich text box in a web page, as this can really mess up how the content
> is displayed in a web browser.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
Nice one. But not of use to me. I use geshi on my site, so cannot use
WYSIWYG editors. Instead I've BBCode and WikiCreole (PEAR Wiki) input
formats.
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It's not just for wysiwyg editors, that's just the second part of the
function. The first does just what you asked for.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
I didn't ask anything in this topic. It was Skip Evans the thread starter.
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