NAME

Labyrinth::MLUtils - Standard Database Access Methods

SYNOPSIS

  use Labyrinth::MLUtils;

FUNCTIONS

HTML Tag handling

LegalTag

Returns TRUE or FALSE as to whether the given HTML tag is accepted by the system.

LegalTags

Returns the list of HTML tags that are accepted by the system.

CleanTags

For a given text string, attempts to clean the use of any HTML tags. Any HTML tags found that are not accepted by the system are encoded into HTML entities.

CleanHTML

For a given text string, removes all existence of any HTML tag. Mostly used in input text box cleaning.

SafeHTML

For a given text string, encodes all HTML tags to HTML entities. Mostly used in input textarea edit preparation.

CleanLink

CleanWords

Drop Down Boxes

DropDownList

DropDownListText

DropDownRows

DropDownRowsText

DropDownMultiList

DropDownMultiRows

Error Functions

ErrorText

Returns the given error string in a HTML span tag (bold red font).

ErrorSymbol

Flags to the system that an error has occured and returns the HTML symbol for 'empty' which can then be used as the error field indicator.

Protection Functions

LinkSpam

Checks whether any links exist in the given text that could indicate comment spam.

CSS Handling Code

create_inline_styles ( HASHREF )

HTML Demoroniser Code

demoroniser ( INPUT )

Given a string, with replace the Microsoft "smart" characters with sensible ACSII versions.

HTML Handling Code

process_html ( INPUT [,LINE_BREAKS [,ALLOW]] )

escape_html ( INPUT )

unescape_html ( INPUT )

cleanup_attr_style

cleanup_attr_number

cleanup_attr_multilength

cleanup_attr_text

cleanup_attr_length

cleanup_attr_color

cleanup_attr_uri

cleanup_attr_tframe

cleanup_attr_trules

cleanup_html

cleanup_tag

cleanup_close

cleanup_cdata

cleanup_no_number

check_url_valid

cleanup_attr_inputtype

cleanup_attr_method

cleanup_attr_scriptlang

cleanup_attr_scripttype

strip_nonprintable

SEE ALSO

  Labyrinth

AUTHOR

Barbie, <barbie@missbarbell.co.uk> for Miss Barbell Productions, http://www.missbarbell.co.uk/

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

  Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Barbie for Miss Barbell Productions
  All Rights Reserved.

  This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.