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Format Text [to HTML] Script
« on: October 11, 2014, 01:55:43 am »

Original post for Format Text [to HTML] Script can be found at https://www.castledragmire.com/Posts/Format_Text_[to_HTML]_Script.
Originally posted on: 10/10/14

After writing the documentation in plaintext format for DSQL just now, I needed to convert it into HTML for the project’s page. I’ve done this before manually and it’s always very daunting, so I decided to really quickly write a script to do most of the work for me, which can be downloaded here, or the code seen below.

It has the following:
  • Input text box with HTML data that is instantly shown as HTML in a below section when modified.
    Both sections take up half the vertical screen space
  • Undo/redo buffer for the text box (very primitive functionality)
  • “Open in new page” button, which opens a new window with just the HTML data (useful for validation [W3C or whatnot]).
    This is disabled by default because it is a dangerous option (XSS exploitable, so the script would need to be secured/password protected if this was on)
  • “Escape HTML” escapes HTML characters so they are not improperly interpreted (e.x. “<” becomes “&lt;”)
  • Listize:
    • Turns tabbed lists into HTML
    • For example:
      1
         2
         3
            4
      5
      would become:
      1
      • 2
      • 3
        • 4
      5


I realized while making the script that I should probably instead just start making my documentation in a markup (like GitHub’s) and then have that converted to HTML and text files. Oh well.



Code:

<? header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Format Text</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<?
$AllowRenderText=true; //Set to true only if this is in a secure environment, as directly outputting a given value can lead to XSS
if(isset($_REQUEST['RenderText']))
   return print '</head><body>'.($AllowRenderText ? $_REQUEST['RenderText'] : 'Rendering of text not allowed').'</body></html>';
?>
<style type="text/css">
html, body { width:100%; height:100%; margin:0; padding:0; }
.HalfScreen { display:block; width:calc(100% - 2px); height:calc(50% - 2px - 30px/2); margin:0; border:1px solid black; }
#RenderForm { overflow:hidden; }
#RenderText { margin:0; border:0; width:100%; height:100%; }
#RenderHTML { overflow-x:hidden; overflow-y:scroll; }
.TopBar { height:30px; background-color:grey; }
.Hide { position:absolute; visibility:hidden; top:-10000px; }
</style>

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">$(document).ready(function() {

//History for undoing
var UndoBuf=[], RedoBuf=[];
function Undo()
{
   if(!UndoBuf.length)
      return;
   RedoBuf.push(UndoBuf.pop());
   $('#RenderText').val(UndoBuf[UndoBuf.length-1]);
   $('#RenderHTML').html(UndoBuf[UndoBuf.length-1]);
}
function Redo()
{
   if(!RedoBuf.length)
      return;
   $('#RenderText').val(RedoBuf[RedoBuf.length-1]);
   $('#RenderHTML').html(RedoBuf[RedoBuf.length-1]);
   UndoBuf.push(RedoBuf.pop());
}
$('#Undo').click(function(e) { e.preventDefault(); Undo(); });
$('#Redo').click(function(e) { e.preventDefault(); Redo(); });

//Render HTML
function Render() {
   //Do the render
   var MyVal=$('#RenderText').val();
   $('#RenderHTML').html(MyVal);

   //Save current value to the history
   //*Better history functionality here would be real nice (using smart currentTarget.selectionStart/End calculations), along with an undo/redo button, but not within the scope of this project
   if(RedoBuf.length) //Empty redo buffer
      RedoBuf=[];
   UndoBuf.push(MyVal);
   if(UndoBuf.length>100) //Limit history buffer
      UndoBuf.shift();
}
$('#RenderText').on('keypress paste', function(e) { setTimeout(Render, 1); }); //Automatic update on paste requires a timeout

//Open in new page
$('#OpenInNewPage').click(function(e) {
   e.preventDefault();
   $('#RenderForm').submit();
});

//Escape HTML
$('#EscapeHTML').click(function(e) {
   e.preventDefault();
   $('#RenderText').val(function(index, value) {
      $.each({"&amp;":/&/g, "&lt;":/</g, "&gt;":/>/g, "&quot;":/"/g, "&#039;":/'/g}, function(HTMLStr, ReplStr) {
         value=value.replace(ReplStr, HTMLStr); });
      return value;
   });
   Render();
});

//Listize based on tabbing
//If a successive line is tabbed over beyond the current, it is made inside a new nested list.
//Tabbing over more than once on a successive line will create multiple nests
//Having @@@ at the beginning of a line will include it in the previous line item, no matter the tabbing
//Make sure to have @@@ blank lines tabbed over to the proper nested level
$('#Listize').click(function(e) {
   //Get the text to replace
   e.preventDefault();
   var T=$('#RenderText').val();

   //Go over each line and if the next line is tabbed beyond it, make it a new nested list. Blank
   var CurTabLevel=0, NewLines=[]; //NewLines is 2 items per line: the original string and the new html tags
   $.each(T.split(/\r?\n/), function(Index, Str) {
      //Check for a continued line item
      if(Str.substr(0, 3)=='@@@')
         return NewLines.push('
', Str.substr(3));

      //In/de-dent as needed
      var Tags='';
      var NewTabLevel=/^\t*/.exec(Str)[0].length, PreLevel=CurTabLevel; //Get the nested level
      for(;NewTabLevel>CurTabLevel;CurTabLevel++)
         Tags+='<ul><li>';
      for(;NewTabLevel<CurTabLevel;CurTabLevel--)
         Tags+='</li></ul>';

      //Fill out the rest of the line
      if(NewTabLevel==0) //Breaks between top level new lines
         Tags+=(Index && PreLevel==0 ? '
' : '');
      else if(PreLevel>=NewTabLevel) //If previous item needs to be ended (new level is not greater and not 0)
         Tags+='</li><li>';

      NewLines.push(Tags, Str);
   });

   //Finish de-dent as needed
   var Final=[NewLines.shift()];
   var EndLine='';
   while(CurTabLevel--)
      EndLine+='</li></ul>';
   NewLines.push(EndLine);

   //Combine each line with the tags
   for(var i=0;i<NewLines.length;i+=2)
      Final.push(NewLines[i+0]+NewLines[i+1]);



   //Update from the replaced text
   $('#RenderText').val(Final.join("\n"));
   Render();
});

});</script>

</head>
<body>
   <div class=TopBar>
      <input type=button id=EscapeHTML value="Escape HTML">
      <input type=button id=Listize value="Listize">
      <? if($AllowRenderText) { ?> <input type=button id=OpenInNewPage value="Open In New Page"> <? } ?>
      <input type=button id=Undo value="Undo">
      <input type=button id=Redo value="Redo">
   </div>
   <form action="FormatText.php" method=post id=RenderForm target="_blank" class=HalfScreen>
      <textarea id=RenderText name=RenderText></textarea>
      <input type=submit class=Hide>
   </form>
   <div id=RenderHTML class=HalfScreen></div>
</body>
</html>
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