Zend_Form html entities problem

[Pieter-12]

Hi everyone,

quick question; I am trying to create a dropdown box with all the country codes and names. The problem is, however, that many of these countries need html entities (as they contain umlauts, accent graves etcetera). If I use html entities like ë it will be converted by zend_form to ¨

Does anyone know how to circumvent this?

Sample code:

$this->addElement('select', 'country', array(

    'validators' => array(

        array(

         'regex', false, array('/^[A-Z]{2}$/',

),

),

    'label'=>'Land:',

    'required' => true,

'multiOptions' => array(

'AF'=>'Afghanistan','AL'=>'Albanië','DZ'=>'Algerije','AS'=>'Amerikaanse Samoa','AD'=>'Andorra','AO'=>'Angola','AI'=>'Anguilla',

),

'decorators' => $this->elementDecorators

));

Thanks for helping!

Regards,

Pieter

[Pieter-12]

Thanks Adam! Your solution works great.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Adam Hunter <ah125i@...> wrote:

Hi,

This is because Zend_Form render's through Zend_View's helpers.  This escapes form values by default.  I use (in my controller) $this->view->setEscape('stripslashes').  This way your form values won't be converted to HTML Entities.  From inside your form class you can do $this->getView()->setEscape('stripslashes').

Hope this helps.

Adam

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Pieter <ptrwrsm@...> wrote:

Hi everyone,

quick question; I am trying to create a dropdown box with all the country codes and names. The problem is, however, that many of these countries need html entities (as they contain umlauts, accent graves etcetera). If I use html entities like &euml; it will be converted by zend_form to &amp;uml;

Does anyone know how to circumvent this?

Sample code:

$this->addElement('select', 'country', array(

    'validators' => array(

        array(

         'regex', false, array('/^[A-Z]{2}$/',

),

),

    'label'=>'Land:',

    'required' => true,

'multiOptions' => array(

'AF'=>'Afghanistan','AL'=>'Albani&euml;','DZ'=>'Algerije','AS'=>'Amerikaanse Samoa','AD'=>'Andorra','AO'=>'Angola','AI'=>'Anguilla',

),

'decorators' => $this->elementDecorators

));

Thanks for helping!

Regards,

Pieter

[Pieter-12]

Thanks Jason. Good to know it's that easy to overwrite those functions.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Jason Stames <jstames@...> wrote:

You can override the view escape function. All view helpers inherit their escape function from the view.

//Anywhere this will be seen by the Zend Engine before used below
//This is a dummy escape function
function noEscape($value)
{
       return $value;
}

//Place somewhere in your controller - after the view is initialized
//Set the view escape function
$this->view->setEscape('noEscape');


You can also override the default escape function for your specific select object if you still want the view to escape other output...

//Anywhere this will be seen by the Zend Engine before used below
//This is a dummy escape function
function noEscape($value)
{
       return $value;
}

//In your controller
$select->setEscape('noEscape');


If you cross a better method, please let me know.

- Jason

On 2008-09-08, at 05:36:56, Pieter wrote:

Hi everyone,

quick question; I am trying to create a dropdown box with all the country codes and names. The problem is, however, that many of these countries need html entities (as they contain umlauts, accent graves etcetera). If I use html entities like &euml; it will be converted by zend_form to &amp;uml;
Does anyone know how to circumvent this?

Sample code:

$this->addElement('select', 'country', array(
   'validators' => array(
       array(
               'regex', false, array('/^[A-Z]{2}$/',
),
),
   'label'=>'Land:',
   'required' => true,
'multiOptions' => array(
'AF'=>'Afghanistan','AL'=>'Albani&euml;','DZ'=>'Algerije','AS'=>'Amerikaanse Samoa','AD'=>'Andorra','AO'=>'Angola','AI'=>'Anguilla',
),
'decorators' => $this->elementDecorators
));

Thanks for helping!


Regards,
Pieter

[bentobenji]

I'm having the same problems with simply displaying html with a simple echo function.  The view escape is converting all the html entities in my data to ascii.  I tried turning it off using this noEscape function but I must be missing something.  The escape callback is not working and needs to be a valid one as defined in Abstract.php in library/Zend/View.  Do I only have two default choices 'htmlspecialchars' and 'htmlspecialentities'??