Render html with php

[Perad]

Such a frustrating day... web host has been on the blink but i have finally proved its not a problem with the apache set up on my laptop.

So, i must be doing something wrong with my coding. I am using a class called
textile to render the input in html. Unfortunately it is coming out as this.

<p>This is a test</p>

What do i have to need to do to make these tags actually be rendered by html?

[ukgeoff]

Are you saying that the page that is served up to the browser contains these tags but that they don't show?

[Perad]

Yes. If i echo out <i>Text</i> then it comes back as Italic text. If i use textile, http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/ it just brings back the tags but doesn't process it into a formatted page. The same happens if input tags via my input form. It will store the text and tags ok but when it is called it doesn't work.

Furthermore when i use n12br it also just returns <br /> instead of an actual break. Is there something i need to put around the variable to make it show?

[Ryan Fait]

I use Textile all the time, I've never had problems with it. You're actually getting the HTML markup, not what it will look like in a browser. Could you upload this and link us up?

[ukgeoff]

Can you show us a complete example of the generated page?

[Perad]

Here's an example of it not rendering... the sites not completed but you can see http://www.jasonstanley.co.uk/UNC/index.php?action=all

My script looks as follows. www.jasonstanley.co.uk/code.txt Sorry if the codings a little messy. Textile is used in the displayNews function

[Ryan Fait]

My guess is that you've got something in your PHP that is telling the string to turn HTML characters into entities. Textile itself will not turn a < be &lt, so there is something else in there that's doing it.

[ukgeoff]

As Ryan suggests, you need to look through your scripts to see where this code is being generated.

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<div class="newscontent">&lt;p&gt;This is a test&lt;/p&gt;<br /></div>

It's the fact that '<' is being replaced by '&lt;', etc., that is causing the problem.

I also notice that your html code contains tags like <CENTER>. These are deprecated in xhtml. You should be using css to centre items. As an additional note, tag (element) names should always be in lowercase with xhtml.

[Perad]

Yeah geoff i know that, i was just using tables to structure the page to get it working. I am starting to design the page now and these things will all be removed.

It works if i remove the bbcode( ) around the $processed news variable. Can someone look over my code and see if they can see anything in this script that would have such an effect?

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<?php
function bbcode_format ($str) {
    $str = htmlentities($str);

    $simple_search = array(
                '/\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]/is',                                
                '/\[i\](.*?)\[\/i\]/is',                                
                '/\[u\](.*?)\[\/u\]/is',                                
                '/\[url\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/is',                         
                '/\[url\](.*?)\[\/url\]/is',                             
                '/\[align\=(left|center|right)\](.*?)\[\/align\]/is',    
                '/\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]/is',                            
                '/\[mail\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/mail\]/is',                    
                '/\[mail\](.*?)\[\/mail\]/is',                            
                '/\[font\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/font\]/is',                    
                '/\[size\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/size\]/is',                    
                '/\[color\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/color\]/is',        
                );

    $simple_replace = array(
                '<strong>$1</strong>',
                '<em>$1</em>',
                '<u>$1</u>',
                '<a href="$1">$2</a>',
                '<a href="$1">$1</a>',
                '<div style="text-align: $1;">$2</div>',
                '<img src="$1" />',
                '<a href="mailto:$1">$2</a>',
                '<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>',
                '<span style="font-family: $1;">$2</span>',
                '<span style="font-size: $1;">$2</span>',
                '<span style="color: $1;">$2</span>',
                );

    // Do simple BBCode's
    $str = preg_replace ($simple_search, $simple_replace, $str);

    // Do <blockquote> BBCode
    $str = bbcode_quote ($str);

    return $str;
}



function bbcode_quote ($str) {
    $open = '<blockquote>';
    $close = '</blockquote>';

    // How often is the open tag?
    preg_match_all ('/\[quote\]/i', $str, $matches);
    $opentags = count($matches['0']);

    // How often is the close tag?
    preg_match_all ('/\[\/quote\]/i', $str, $matches);
    $closetags = count($matches['0']);

    // Check how many tags have been unclosed
    // And add the unclosing tag at the end of the message
    $unclosed = $opentags - $closetags;
    for ($i = 0; $i < $unclosed; $i++) {
        $str .= '</blockquote>';
    }

    // Do replacement
    $str = str_replace ('[' . 'quote]', $open, $str);
    $str = str_replace ('[/' . 'quote]', $close, $str);

    return $str;
}
?>

[ukgeoff]

It's the htmlentities function that is taking your '<' and converting that to &lt;, etc.

[Ryan Fait]

Yep... Knew that had to be in there somewhere.

[Perad]

ah thank you so much