How to store HTML text in an XML field

Friday 06 October 2006 6:21:42 am

Hi,

I want to store some HTML text (consisting of only <BR> tags in addition to text) in a XML field. I had the following code lying around from a 3.5.x compatible extension

$html = str_replace("<BR>", "\n", $html);
				$dummy = "";
	            $converter = new text2xml( $dummy, 0, $contentObjectAttributes[1] );
	            $converter->validateText( $html, $contentObjectAttributes[1] );
	            
	            $contentObjectAttributes[1]->SetAttribute( 'data_int', EZ_XMLTEXT_VERSION_TIMESTAMP );
	            $contentObjectAttributes[1]->store();

However, when I run this under a 3.8.4 installation, I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/gym2000/public_html/ezpublish-3.8.4/extension/import/kernel/classes/text2xml.php on line 51
Fatal error: eZ publish did not finish its request

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance !

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Tuesday 10 October 2006 3:30:30 am

Hi Claudia,

The function worked perfectly! Thanks a lot !

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Monday 20 August 2007 5:23:51 am

Using this code for a new project, I've come across a problem. Allthough links are stored in the ezurl table and appear correctly on the site, no entry is made in the ezurl_object_link table. This results in the URLs not being available in the URL management view.

Any idea how I can ensure that the URLs are added properly?

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Thursday 27 September 2007 1:54:25 am

Actually, for this latter project, I'm importing XML data (not HTML), and since code originally proposed seemed to work (except for the links) I decided to stick with it.

I did, however, manage to modify it in order to add the appropriate entries in ezurl_object_link. Here's the modified version:

function setEZXMLAttribute( &$contentObjectAttribute, &$attributeContent)
 {
    include_once( 'kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/handlers/input/ezsimplifiedxmlinputparser.php' );

    $contentObjectID = $contentObjectAttribute->attribute('contentobject_id');
    $parser = new eZSimplifiedXMLInputParser( $contentObjectID, false, 0 );

    $document = $parser->process($attributeContent);

    if (!is_object($document))
    {
        $this->messages[] = $this->message("Error", "Adding creating EZXMLText");
        return false;
    }

	// get links    
    $links =& $document->elementsByName( 'link' );

	// for each link
	foreach($links as $link)
	{
		// create link between url (link) and object
		$eZURLObjectLink = eZURLObjectLink::create( $link->attributeValue('url_id'),
		                   							$contentObjectAttribute->attribute('id'), 
		                   							$contentObjectAttribute->attribute('version') );
		$eZURLObjectLink->store();
	}

    $domString = eZXMLTextType::domString( $document );
    $contentObjectAttribute->setAttribute( 'data_text', $domString );
    $contentObjectAttribute->store();
 }

For those of you following pike's example, please note that the example he refers to is from 2003 and that I belive there has been some changes in the kernel since then. Among them is the attribute name of link ids (previously 'id', now 'url_id').

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Sunday 30 September 2007 8:18:54 am

While we are at it, do use xmlwash if you go for html literal (or display raw content from a text field).

http://projects.ez.no/xmlwash

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