Few More Changes

Relates to PEAR and Blogging

The comments forms on this blog has now been updated to accept a few XHTML tags again. Of course this means validating markup before submitting the data. This server is running PHP4, so unfotunately no access to the new Tidy Library. Therefore I had to look around for some code to handle the validation.

In a previous incarnation of this blog I had put Simon Willison's SafeHtmlChecker class to work. This time round I have decided to allow only a few inline elements. This keep formatting of the comments data to a minimum (for speed), and allows the XHTML validation to be plugged straight into my current validator class. To achieve this I have utilised a simple parser based around the PEAR::XML_HTMLSax package. This SAX based parser is ideal since it will not fail automatically on badly formed XML.

The new form is still in beta so I apologise if anything goes belly-up in use!

Posted on Saturday, Aug 14, 2004 at 15:52:05.

Comments on Few More Changes (6)

α comment

Something to talk about it, but might as well actually try the form out too I guess!!!

Some strongly emphasised text, some slightly emphasised text, and a correction corrected to.


if ($this_was_real && $not_false) {
  return sprintf("<a=\"%s\" title=\"%s\">%s</a>, "#", "Um", "Er");
}
else {
  die("Me Ke Aloha Pau Ole");
}

The new form is still in beta so I apologise if anythin goes belly-up Tom Wright

- That is no excuse :)

A link that goes nowhere

End of tests for now…

Posted by Tom
Saturday, Aug 14, 2004 at 17:08:47

β comment

NOTE TO SELF: The comments field needs to be wider - it is not conducive to writing code and anchors!!!

BUGS:

1. Reintroduce BR to text formatting - all or nothing at moment…

2. If code markup within flow of paragraph, formatter breaks :(

Posted by Tom
Saturday, Aug 14, 2004 at 17:13:24

γ comment

Why no feed? I'd really like to subscribe to this blog.

Also, I don't like the way the comment text boxes have the hand cursor, as though they were links. Just doesn't feel right.

Posted by hemebond
Saturday, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:45:41

δ comment

I just found the link to your feed. Why isn't it visible on the main page?

Posted by hemebond
Saturday, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:47:59

ε comment

Apols hemebond! While I have been changing things around on the site recently links have come and gone a bit, and occassionally forget to reinstate them!

Will get the Feed link up again. Have added RSS Link tag now as per the latest specification to allow Live Bookmark's of the syndicated content in the new Firefox Preview Release.

Posted by Tom
Friday, Sep 17, 2004 at 17:27:36

ζ comment :: Test Post : Trackback Added

This is just a test to see if the new trackback module is working on the live server…

Posted by Tom Wright
Friday, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:32:54

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