Re: Wiki formatting class or something similar

On 30 April 2011 15:13, Stuart Dallas <stuart@3ft9.com> wrote: > On Friday, 29 April 2011 at 22:04, Andre Polykanine wrote: > Hi everyone, >> I allow my users to put some Html into their blogs. I filter it using >> a great tool called HtmLawed and written by Dr. Santosh Patnaik (if >> you're reading this, many thanks to you!). >> However, I would like to give them a possibility to mark-up their text >> in a more convenient way for beginners (such as Wiki or something >> similar). >> I searched through http://phpclasses.org/ but didn't >> find anything. >> Could you suggest me something? >> And one more question: maybe some of you already have a handy solution >> to process smilies? Say, a user writes ":)" and this is replaced by an >> image in my directory. >> Thanks in advance! > > Markdown is a pretty good option for a wiki: > http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ > > Textile is another option (and supports tables which markdown does not): > http://textile.thresholdstate.com/ > MarkItUp is a favourite plugin editor of mine - will allow you to work with a lot of different syntaxes and users don't need to know them. http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/ If you're considering sanitizing html instead of using a markup language to convert into html, I'd read http://blog.astrumfutura.com/2010/08/html-sanitisation-the-devils-in-the-details-and-the-vulnerabilities/ before settling on any tool to do the job. Far as I can tell, HtmLawed isn't actually capable of sanitizing properly, according to the author - unless it's since been updated to fix the problems mentioned in the blog. Regards Peter -- <hype> WWW: plphp.dk / plind.dk LinkedIn: plind BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51 Twitter: kafe15 </hype>