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Hi all,

My question is: How can I get HTML comment tags in language variables to work inside the “User Message Template”?

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For those who need the long story…

I am using AJAX to handle all EE forms on a client’s website.
The forms are posted using some javascript function (mootools) and the returned html is then parsed to check what feedback should be given to the user.

- The ‘html’ variable contains the returned html.
- The ‘updateLog’ function shows the message in a predefined <div> element
- ‘test’ is a mootools function to check for a substring

Example:

function testResponse(html) {
    // check for messages
    if ( html.test("You are now logged in") ) {
        updateLog("You are now logged in.");
    }
    if ( html.test("You are now logged out") ) {
        // done, redirect to login page
        location.href="/login/";
    }
}

This works fine but I have to check for the actual text value.
Having multiple languages it would be better to just check for the variable name.

So instead of this:

"mbr_you_are_logged_in" =>
"You are now logged in.",

I would like to do this:

"mbr_you_are_logged_in" =>
"<!--mbr_you_are_logged_in-->You are now logged in.",

This way I can just check for “mbr_you_are_logged_in” and regular User Messages will still display fine (for those who have javascript turned off).

But unfortunately the “User Message Template” converts my HTML comment tag to entities, like this:

& lt;!--mbr_you_are_logged_in--& gt;You are now logged in.

EDIT: It seems that the xhtml formatting in the “show_message” function in “core.output.php” is the cause.

function show_message($data, $xhtml = TRUE)
    {
    ...

Of course I could set $xhtml to FALSE, but I’m really looking for a non-hack way to do this.
Any chance there is some extension hook I can use?

Cheers.

Ok, looks like I found a solution using the ‘typography_parse_type_end’ hook.

I will format my language variables like this (using a regex search and replace):

"mbr_you_are_logged_in" =>
"<!--MSG mbr_you_are_logged_in MSG-->You are now logged in.",

After all typography processing I just convert the code back to HTML comments for only those ‘MSG’ variables.

$str = str_replace('& lt;!--MSG', '<!--', $str);
$str = str_replace('MSG--& gt;', '-->', $str);