Lost again.

[Cabbit]

Hey folks i been working on a bbcode thingie in javascript and i am trying to send the post to a new class for sanitizing and converting the bb tags but i can't seem to get the class to return anything.

this is demo.php well a snippet of it, i have checked that $_POST['post'] does have a value so no issues there.

echo '<a href="demo.php">Back</a><br />';
	
	require_once('textarea.class.php');
		
	// Set up a new class
	$test = new validate_textarea();
		
	// Send post to validate class
	$test->post = $_POST['post'];
	
	// Return any errors
	$test->error_return();
	
	// Return the valid output bbcode
	$test->return_bbcode();
	
	// Return the valid output html
	$test->return_formatedhtml();

and this is the new class in development hopefully how php5 likes it.

<?php
/************************************************************************************
  								Kittenbunny CMS
 								Filename: textarea.class.php
 								Class: Validate Textarea 
************************************************************************************/

class validate_textarea
{
	// Variables
  	private $post;
	
	// Function to remove html tags //
	private function sanitize_htmltags()
	{
		$value = $this->post;
		
		// Removing the leading space that is annoying. //
		$value = preg_replace('/ /i', '', $value);

		// Sets the allowed taggs //
		$value = preg_replace('/<\/?(?:\b(?!)[^>]+?)>/i', '', $value);  
	
		// Does the htmlspecialchars bit //
		$value = htmlspecialchars($value, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"); 
		
		return $value;
	}
	
	// Function to convert the bbtages to html. //
	private function bbtags()
	{
	
	}
	
	// Function to return errors. //
	public function error_return()
	{
		return $this->sanitize_htmltags();
	}
	
	// Function to return the post with bbcode. html tags removed. //
	public function return_bbcode()
	{
		return $this->sanitize_htmltags();
	}
	
	// Function to return the post in html format for display. //
	public function return_formatedhtml()
	{
		return $this->sanitize_htmltags();
	}
}
?>

 

[angelwatt]

I might be wrong on this as I haven't done much OOPHP, but for this line,

$test->post = $_POST['post'];

You're accessing $post, which is a private variable in the class. I don't believe you can access it directly. I think you may need a public setPost function to call that assign the $_POST value.

 

[Cabbit]

changing it to a public variable made no difference

 

[angelwatt]

Have you checked the PHP error log to see if anything shows up there? Are you getting any type of feedback or output?

 

[Cabbit]

Have you checked the PHP error log to see if anything shows up there? Are you getting any type of feedback or output?

[29-Apr-2009 21:15:26] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method validate_textarea::set_post() in /Users/davidroy/AB Comforts/Website/HTML/development_directory/include/class/demo.php on line 62
[29-Apr-2009 21:15:45] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method validate_textarea::set_post() in /Users/davidroy/AB Comforts/Website/HTML/development_directory/include/class/demo.php on line 62


EDIT: i miss spelled require_once i think and used return instead of echo.

 

[angelwatt]

[29-Apr-2009 21:15:26] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method validate_textarea::set_post() in /Users/davidroy/AB Comforts/Website/HTML/development_directory/include/class/demo.php on line 62
[29-Apr-2009 21:15:45] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method validate_textarea::set_post() in /Users/davidroy/AB Comforts/Website/HTML/development_directory/include/class/demo.php on line 62

So it looks like you added to the code you posted before to include a method named set_post. Is that method public? And, just to check, is the updated textarea.class.php file uploaded into the right spot?

 

[angelwatt]

I tried out the code you put up. It runs for me when I changed the $post variable from private to public. Here's the code I tested with. I had to make some modifications since I don't have your setup.

<?php
require_once('textarea.class.php');
        
// Set up a new class
$test = new validate_textarea();
    
// Send post to validate class
//$test->post = $_POST['post'];
$test->post = 'hi!';

// Return any errors
echo "<p>error: ". $test->error_return() .'</p>';

// Return the valid output bbcode
echo "<p>bbcode: ". $test->return_bbcode() .'</p>';

// Return the valid output html
echo "<p>format: ". $test->return_formatedhtml() .'</p>';
?>

Which gave me an output of,

error: hi!

bbcode: hi!

format: hi!

 

[Cabbit]

it was mainly just a spelling error

 

[jakeOSX]

it was mainly just a spelling error

throw in semi colons and you'll have most of frustration a programmer finds.

 

[Cabbit]

throw in semi colons and you'll have most of frustration a programmer finds.

Problem is that my text reader does not always pick up the mistakes