Parse Error using Typography class
Development and Programming
Hi there,
I’m hoping you can help me.
I have a custom plugin that gets member data, essentially I want to display the {bio} field for a given user. And I’d like to format the text accordingly.
My code currently gets the {bio} field and returns it. However if the {bio} text itself contains a simple URL (e.g: ‘www.google.com) then the following error appears on the page: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /system/core/core.functions.php(635) : eval()’d code on line 77
It seems whenever it has to auto-format a URL or such, it throws a fit. I’m guessing that I’m doing something wrong with the typography class - but I simply can’t see what it is I should be doing.
An example of the code is such:
$bio = $this->TYPE->parse_type($query->row['bio'], array('text_format'=>'xhtml', 'html_format'=>'all','auto_links'=>'y','allow_img_url'=>'n'));
$text = str_replace('{bio}',$bio, $text);Previously I discussed some more details about the plugin I have written, in here: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/58374/
Any help much appreciated!
I’m using EE 1.6.
[mod edit: moved to plugin forums]
Can you post more of your code? Just to make sure, does the typography class work on {bio} when it doesn’t have a URL in it? And just as a caveat - I’m not promising I can help 😉
Why not try my plugin? It works for the forum… I imagine it would work for the member templates as well. here is the link to it
I got it to work fine, I believe.
Unfortunately I can’t use a different plugin - mine is just too customised.
It does work, its just that URLs in the {bio} field break it.
What happens if you turn off auto_links when you’re calling Typography - does it still break?
The second line of code you posted:
$text = str_replace('{bio}',$bio, $text);Is that so you can return your newly formatted {bio} I’m assuming? Can you post all your code? Looking at that I’m not sure the problem is in how you’re calling the typography class/method.
Hey Barry,
Thanks for your reply on this. I’ve been tinkering and it looks like my code is just not good enough to do this successfully. I need to rewrite using the template class I think…
hmm, need to put it in a file, I’ll PM you.
Gah. My plugin is rather a mess I think. This is why I’m a designer!
I’ll have to start over and rewrite this plugin at some point, or pick up a copy of SolSpaces “User” Module.
I can’t help with the plugin specifically, but perhaps you’d like to post your actual goal? You should be able to output this with the custom profile tag in 1.6.1.
I run www.crawlofthedead.com, a community site for zombies.
I’ve had to be somewhat rather hacky to achieve my goals. The user profiles however are pretty much exactly as I need them, bar this bug.
The custom profile tag is perhaps useful, but does not include the functionality in my own plugin, which is tailored quite finely for my site. In time, I hope to move to SolSpaces’ extensive User module, so I can remove my hacks and have a ‘safer’ site (which I can upgrade without fear).