Help converting a single quote in an entry title
Development and Programming
I am trying to to convert the HTML Entity that is returned by the {title} variable back into the character it is supposed to be. I am rendering the template in plain text so it isn’t going to be converted by the browser. I am writing a plug-in that would do this conversion in the template but am having a hard time finding out how to convert the specific value for the single quote.
The following is the value coming back in the {title} variable and doesn’t convert back:
echo html_entity_decode("’",ENT_QUOTES);This works:
echo html_entity_decode("'",ENT_QUOTES);Moved to Development and Programming by Moderator
Is there a built in function available in EE to do this conversion back and forth? Is there kind of helper class I can load into my plugin to do this conversion?
summitpr,
Is there a built in function available in EE to do this conversion back and forth? Is there kind of helper class I can load into my plugin to do this conversion?
Take a look here system\codeigniter\system\helpers\typography_helper.php
Does that help?
I think this is exactly what I need, however it does lead me to another question. You’ll have to forgive me, I have yet to really develop any extensions for EE2 though I have done some with EE1.
My new question is now how do I go about using the CI code in my plugin? What is the proper way to leverage the CI helper inside my plugin? I have looked online, with little success, to find resources on how to do this. Thanks for all your help!
Jeremy
Hi, Jeremy. This part of the question would be better suited in the Development forum.. moving there for additional community support.
summitpr, Take a look here system\codeigniter\system\helpers\typography_helper.php
This does look like what I need, but I don’t know how to call the entity_decode method in that file. I think that is my last little hang-up I try to do it using $this->EE-typography->entity_decode($str); but it errors and says that it isn’t a method the other methods work, but I am clearly not following this for some reason…
Jeremy,
Have you looked through any CI tutorials? You can think of your plugin as basically a CI controller with a few more restrictions. But, you can load any available CI helpers or libraries, etc, with $this->EE->load->helper(‘helper_name’); or $this->EE->load->library(‘library_name’); etc.
Ok, well I think that makes sense! I will work on getting this character converted back to its original self! Thanks for your help! I will post back with my results!