Html encode

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi all,

In my controller I have to set a litle Html text and I would like to give it to the view.

I set as attribut to the SiteController :


$noscript ='';

Then In my controller’s actions, I define what should be the noscript class attribute and I pass it to the render.




$this->noscript='<h1>In case of no js setting, ... blablabla...</h1>';

And in my Layout


<body>

<noscript><?php echo $this->noscript; ?></noscript>

I would expect having <h1>In case of no js setting, … blablabla…</h1> in my view, but I obtain something like:


&amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;In case of no js setting, ... blablabla...&amp;lt;/h1&amp;gt;

Is there a way to have the Html code without this $amp;lt etc …

Thanks

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I tryed your idea… and it works for me… seems that somewhere you encode the $noscript variable…

Anyway it’s a bad idea to set any HTML code in the controller or model… why not set just the message in the variable… and leave the code for the layout…

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Do you mean that you obtain


<h1> text ... </h1>

and not


&amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;In case of no js setting, ... blablabla...&amp;lt;/h1&amp;gt

?

Why I process like this, it is because, depending to the action, there is a specific


<noscript></noscript>

tag to generate in order to give an alternative text in case javascript is not working (blocked)

And this text depends of the page you are on. I can’t fix it inside layout with “static” text.

And I do not know how to handle this without doing as I described in the previous post

4

Yes I’m getting plain HTML… tryed on new yiic generated code…

If you need only different text… than you can set $this->noscript="only text";

and in the layout


<noscript><h1><?php echo $this->noscript; ?></h1></noscript>

if you need text with a header you can use two variables like $noscripttitle and $noscripttext…

5

Be carefull.

It works also for me when I set <?php echo $this->noscript; ?> in a view but when I place the code in the layout, then It doesn’t work !

6

what you mean with layout?

I tryed in the view… in the column2.php and in the main.php… all three places echoes plain HTML without encoding…

7

In protected/views/layouts/main.php

So I don’t understand… Maybe I have a problem with my editor …

But anyway I never explicitly encode the html text with CHtml::encode function

8

I just noticed that you wrote “and I pass it to the render” in the first post… You don’t need to pass the variable…

9

I you still get the encoded text… try to create a new yii application (yiic webapp newapp)… and make only these changes… to check that you get the value non encoded…

I tryed with Yii 1.1.5

10

I go deeper in the problem.

In my layout when I write only


<?php echo $this->noscript; ?>

with


$noscript ='<h1>blablabla</h1><p>another blablabla</p>';

Then display is in Html,exactly that I expected.

BUT when I try to set this html inside a <noscript> tag(


<body><noscript><?php echo $this->noscript; ?></noscript> ....

), then It becomes not pure Html display.

Remark: When i set the message


<body><div><?php echo $this->noscript; ?></div> ....

then pure Html is displayed.

It seems it comes from the use of the <noscript> </noscript> tag …

11

OK,

Sorry I’m a real donkey.

All works fine.

I just use debug with firebug, and then you see pure html but encoded html between <noscript> tags …

Really sorry, to have wasted your precious time …

12

Anyway I already tried before answering the first time with and without the <noscript>… both cases works the same… would be very strange otherwise…

Glad you found what was wrong :)