Use ColdFusion to Revert HTMLEditFormat()
Saturday 02 March 2013 09:33 AM
This ColdFusion function is a simple solution I saw somewhere on the Web a while back. I needed it yesterday, but my rather rusty brain forgot where it was. And the Web is too big, and the page too small for Google to locate it. I’m happy to say I remembered a bit of it, so I recreated it.
HTMLEditFormat() can convert special characters and symbols, such as & or ©, into HTML special character codes, like & or ©. However, there is no native function to convert those special character codes back to normal characters. Here is a simple custom function.
1: <cffunction name="HTMLStringFormat" access="public" output="No" > 2: <cfargument name="string" type="string" required="Yes" > 3: <cfset local.special = "–,—,¡,¿,",“,”,‘,’,«,», ,&,¢,©,÷,>,<,µ,·,¶,±,€,£,®,§,™,¥,á,Á,à,À,â,Â,å,Å,ã,Ã,ä,Ä,æ,Æ,ç,Ç,é,É,è,È,ê,Ê,ë,Ë,í,Í,ì,Ì,î,Î,ï,Ï,ñ,Ñ,ó,Ó,ò,Ò,ô,Ô,ø,Ø,õ,Õ,ö,Ö,ß,ú,Ú,ù,Ù,û,Û,ü,Ü,ÿ"> 4: <cfset local.normal = "#chr(8211)#,#chr(8212)#,#chr(161)#,#chr(191)#,#chr(34)#,#chr(8220)#,#chr(8221)#,#chr(39)#,#chr(39)#,#chr(171)#,#chr(187)#,#chr(32)#,#chr(38)#,#chr(162)#,#chr(169)#,#chr(247)#,#chr(62)#,#chr(60)#,#chr(181)#,#chr(183)#,#chr(182)#,#chr(177)#,#chr(8364)#,#chr(163)#,#chr(174)#,#chr(167)#,#chr(8482)#,#chr(165)#,#chr(225)#,#chr(193)#,#chr(224)#,#chr(192)#,#chr(226)#,#chr(194)#,#chr(229)#,#chr(197)#,#chr(227)#,#chr(195)#,#chr(228)#,#chr(196)#,#chr(230)#,#chr(198)#,#chr(231)#,#chr(199)#,#chr(233)#,#chr(201)#,#chr(232)#,#chr(200)#,#chr(234)#,#chr(202)#,#chr(235)#,#chr(203)#,#chr(237)#,#chr(205)#,#chr(236)#,#chr(204)#,#chr(238)#,#chr(206)#,#chr(239)#,#chr(207)#,#chr(241)#,#chr(209)#,#chr(243)#,#chr(211)#,#chr(242)#,#chr(210)#,#chr(244)#,#chr(212)#,#chr(248)#,#chr(216)#,#chr(245)#,#chr(213)#,#chr(246)#,#chr(214)#,#chr(223)#,#chr(250)#,#chr(218)#,#chr(249)#,#chr(217)#,#chr(251)#,#chr(219)#,#chr(252)#,#chr(220)#,#chr(255)#"> 5: <cfset local.formated = ReplaceList(arguments.string, local.special, local.normal)> 6: <cfreturn local.formated> 7: </cffunction> #HTMLStringFormat('
Marks & Spencer')# will return
Marks & Spencer.
Posted by Saman W Jayasekara at Thursday 09 September 2010 11:55 AM
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ColdFusion
Krystian
Wednesday 21 October 2015 05:26 AM
Why did you remove my comment and alternative solution ?
private string function unescape(required java.lang.Class stringEscapeUtils, required string htmlString)
{
var unescaped = stringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(htmlString);
if(!unescaped.equals(htmlString))
{
unescaped = unescape(stringEscapeUtils, unescaped);
}
return unescaped;
}
public string function HTMLStringFormat(required string htmlString)
{
var stringEscapeUtils = createObject("java", "org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils");
return unescape(stringEscapeUtils, htmlString);
}
Wednesday 25 March 2015 02:15 AM
this saves my life. . . thank you very much.
arshad
Thursday 02 May 2013 06:29 AM
Thanks A Lot! This function of yours helped me out a lot!
Saturday 02 March 2013 09:04 AM
thanks for your function, it helps me a lot.
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