TextFormatter
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TextFormatter plugin allows you filter user input, before it is 
saved to the database.

Setup
============
Install the plugin:
ruby script\plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/text_formatter/

Install the following gems:
gem install htmltokenizer
gem install syntax
gem install hpricot

If you are using the syntax highlighting method, copy the css from 
/vender/plugins/text_formatter/stylesheets/text_formatter.css into
your css file.


Usage
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The following methods can be used in your models:

  ===Remove HTML Tags
  Remove all html tags from the given fields
  tf_remove_html_tags :fieldname
  e.g. tf_remove_html_tags :title, :post
  
  
  ===Escape HTML Characters
  Escape all tags and special characters
  tf_escape_html_characters :fieldname
  e.g. tf_escape_all_html_characters :title, :post
  
  
  ===Escape Only Text Characters
  Escape all text except html tags
  tf_escape_text_characters :fieldname
  e.g. tf_escape_text_characters :title, :post
  
  
  ===Syntax Highlighting
  Add syntax highlighting to all text within pre tags
  tf_syntax_highlighting :fieldname
  e.g. tf_syntax_highlighting :title, :post
  
  
  ===Simple Text Markup
  Apply SimpleTextMarkup
  tf_simple_text_markup :fieldname
  e.g. tf_simple_text_markup :title, :post
  
  
  ===Content Formatter
  Remove all html tags, SimpleTextMarkup, encode tags within html tags, syntax highlighting
  tf_content_formatter :fieldname
  e.g. tf_content_formatter :title, :post
  
  
  ===Basic Formatter
  Remove all html tags, SimpleTextMarkup, encode tags within html tags
  tf_basic_formatter :fieldname
  e.g. tf_basic_formatter :title, :post


Info
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author: Scott Sherwood
homepage: http://www.railslodge.com
svn: http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/text_formatter/
license: MIT


Thanks to
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Henrik Nyh for providing the hpricot text transform extension.
http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/03/transform-all-text-nodes-excepting-elements-with-hpricot

RedCloth for some of the markup functions
http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/