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#1 2008-10-28 13:30:10

pepebe

Member

From: Mannheim, Germany

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 74

Articles and Code

Hi everybody,

I’m just about to publish my new site featuring zem_event_reloaded. A collection of new functions for the zem_event plugin. While writing on the documentation I encountered obstacles far worse then a few hundred lines of code…

I have to write a couple of articles showing how to use the plugin. Yet I found out that writing code, especially text pattern tags as well as html syntax is extremely difficult. Textile doesn’t seem to help.

How can I tell textpattern to ignore textpattern tags? More important how can I style my code THE WAY I LIKE without textile doing WHAT IT WANTS. Perhaps I’m just stupid about that particular aspect.

Do I need a plugin? Do I have to write one?

Please, tell me I’m wrong and it is easy to do.

Greetings,

pepebe

#2 2008-10-28 13:36:27

thebombsite

Archived Plugin Author

From: Exmouth, England

Registered: 2004-08-24

Posts: 3,251

Website

Re: Articles and Code

You could simply disable textile for that particular article under the “Advanced Options” tab on the “Write” page or use surrounding ampersands “@” which can be around a phrase within text or as a block where you can use line-breaks but can’t leave a blank line then style the output in your CSS.

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#3 2008-10-28 16:23:03

pepebe

Member

From: Mannheim, Germany

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 74

Re: Articles and Code

Thx thebomsite,

this is what I tried before and it felt awfully clumsy. After thinking a bit more about this problem I came up with two possible solutions.

1. Externally encode code in html entities and paste it into the article. Put a <code><pre></pre></code> arround it and voila! This has the benefit of converting all kind of code (html, php, txp) into a format that will look beautiful in any browser. Perhaps there is even some kind of application arround doing exactly that kind of stuff ( even colorizing it?).

2. Write a small plugin. I did some tests with this baby:

<?php
function ppb_displaycode($atts, $thing='') {
extract(lAtts(array(
'class' => '',
), $atts));
if ($thing) {
return '<code class="'.$class.'"><pre>'.htmlspecialchars($thing).'</pre></code>';
}
}
?>

It is a container tag. You can call it from within an article.

Example:

<txp:ppb_displaycode>
<p>This is a paragraph</p>
<p>This is another one</p>
Some empty space between two lines
<p>And a last one</p>
</ppb:_displaycode>.

It works well with php, html and textpattern stuff.

I only found one error. If you write a line like this:
<txp:ppb_displaycode></ppb:_displaycode>.

It causes a strange misfunction.

I will do some research on this topic after the initial launch of my site.

Cu,

pepebe

Last edited by pepebe (2008-10-28 16:23:57)