Comments on: SimpleCode

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:00:41 +0000

If you copy the output back to the input you’ll notice it doesn’t support the escaped characters, but I guess we shouln’t be using nbsp’s anyway :)

By: Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:42:02 +0000

With PHP, you could create a simple function to output formatted code:

function prep_code($string) {
	  $string = htmlspecialchars($string);
	  $string = str_replace("\t", '  ', $string);
	  $string = str_replace('  ', '  ', $string);
	  $string = nl2br($string);
	  return $string;
}

Then just call the function: echo prep_code($code_string); This includes double-spaces, tabs, etc.

By: Maxwel Leite

Maxwel Leite — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:07:34 +0000

Forget replace the tab or “\t”(in JS) in yours JS version (http://wootest.net/simplecode.htm)?

By: Synistar

Synistar — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:50:51 +0000

There is already a CPAN module for this. Try something like:


use HTML::Entities ();
$encoded = HTML::Entities::encode($a);
$encoded = HTML::Entities::encode_numeric($a);
$decoded = HTML::Entities::decode($a);

Or you can use the built in escapeHTML() function in CGI.pm that ships with all modern versions of perl.


use CGI;
my $q=CGI->new();
print $q->header(),
$q->start_html();
print $q->h1($header),
$q->escapeHTML($string_that_i_want_to_escape);

Re-inventing the wheel can be fun. But the perl community has lots of wheel-makers. :)

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 22:40:22 +0000

Great tool, I’ve already been reading your site, and decided to comment. It works great, I’ve already used it a couple times. Thanks!

By: Jesper

Jesper — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 17:51:18 +0000

Terry: purely 'semantics'. You CAN use dfhgfd instead of h1 too, but it's much harder to style with CSS and you don't instantly recognize what it does. With your method you have to actively investigate whether a

</code> is a code sample or a form element and/or attach clumsy <code>id</code>s or <code>class</code>es if you want to style it differently than an actual form textarea.
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<h1>By: Terry</h1>
<p>Terry — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:05:26 +0000</p>
<p>Hi,<br />
Nice script. I came across this a while back:<br />
<a href="http://centricle.com/tools/html-entities/" rel="nofollow">http://centricle.com/tools/html-entities/</a><br />
What I’m wondering, though, is what are the benefits of doing it this as opposed to using a styled textarea?<br />
readonly=”readonly” cols=”80%” rows=”100%”<br />
style=”border: 1px solid black; overflow: visible; padding: 10px;”<br />
Am I missing something? I know using a textarea has extra code required from the form tags itself whereas dumping html entities into a code tags requires less markup. But besides that what are the benefits?<br />
Thanks.</p>

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<h1>By: stombi</h1>
<p>stombi — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:08:10 +0000</p>
<p>sorry Jesper, I was tired and it appears to me that it was easier to post here than at your site.<br />
Thanks for the modification.</p>

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<h1>By: Jesper</h1>
<p>Jesper — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 18:25:29 +0000</p>
<p>The script should now replace CR, LF or CRLF.</p>

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<h1>By: Jesper</h1>
<p>Jesper — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 04:08:54 +0000</p>
<p>stombi: To my understanding, textarea’s have ALWAYS used CRLF across all platforms and browsers. And I was using Dan’s regexes. Maybe the CGI module replaces all LFs with CRs. I don’t know, I never <code>use CGI;</code>. If you’d like to report some of your findings, I’d be more than happy to change the script accordingly. jesper AT lindholms DOT com.</p>

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