Typography Class¶

Calling the Typography Class¶

class Typography¶

The Typography class is used in ExpressionEngine to parse type, providing tools for automatic XHTML, auto line-breaking, email encoding, word censoring, decoding BBCode, syntax highlighting, and gateway access to formatting plugins.

To use the these features in your modules, you need to first instantiate the Typography Class:

ee()->load->library('typography');
ee()->typography->initialize();

Note that after loading the Typography library you need to initialize it with ee()->load->typography->initialize(); or you will be inheriting the class properties of whatever code last used it.

Typography Class Properties¶

The Typography class has a number of class properties that you may wish to set before calling any methods. Below is a description of available class properties and their default values (in bold).

property Typography::$allow_img_url¶

(string) [ y / n ] — Allow inline images?

property Typography::$allow_js_img_anchors¶

(bool) [ TRUE / FALSE ] — Whether to allow JavaScript submitted (within <a href> and <img> tags

property Typography::$auto_links¶

(string) [ y / n ] — Auto-link URLs and email addresses? (Note that auto-linking does not ever occur if $html_format is “none”)

property Typography::$bounce¶

(string) — Used to construct redirect links, to prevent control panel URLs from showing up in referrer logs, and on the front-end for rank denial. This property is set dynamically based on site preferences and is not necessary to set directly.

property Typography::$censored_replace¶

(string) — String that censored words are replaced with, taken from site preferences.

property Typography::$censored_words¶

(array) — Array of words to be censored, taken from site preferences.

property Typography::$code_chunks¶

(array) — Array of temporary markers and content used to prevent formatting from being applied to syntax highlighted code.

property Typography::$code_counter¶

(int) — Used as keys of the $code_chunks array, to keep the temporary markers organized.

property Typography::$convert_curly¶

(bool) [ TRUE / FALSE ] — Convert curly brackets ( “{” and “}”) into entities?

property Typography::$emoticon_path¶

(string) — The preference setting for the URL path to the site’s emoticons. This property is set dynamically based on site preferences and is not necessary to set directly.

property Typography::$encode_email¶

(bool) [ TRUE / FALSE ] — Whether or not email addresses are encoded.

property Typography::$encode_type¶

(string) [ javascript / noscript ] — Type of encoding applied to email addresses if email address encoding is enabled. "noscript" renders in a human readable format (e.g. “name at example dot com)”, suitable for use where JavaScript is inappropriate, such as in a feed.

property Typography::$file_paths¶

(array) — Array of file upload directories in key (ids) => value (urls) pairs.

property Typography::$highlight_code¶

(bool) [ TRUE / FALSE ] — Perform PHP syntax highlighting on [pre] and [code] blocks?

property Typography::$html_fmt_types¶

(array) [ array(‘safe’, ‘all’, ‘none’) ] — Array of standard HTML handling types available to the Typography class.

property Typography::$html_format¶

(string) [ safe / all / none ] — Controls how HTML is handled in text.

property Typography::$parse_images¶

(bool) [ TRUE / FALSE ] — Whether or not {filedir_#} variables are to be parsed.

property Typography::$parse_smileys¶

(bool) [ TRUE / FALSE ] — Replace text smileys with smiley images?

property Typography::$popup_links¶

(bool) [ TRUE / FALSE ] — Create links as popups?

property Typography::$single_line_pgfs¶

(bool) [ TRUE / FALSE ] — Whether to treat single lines as paragraphs in auto-XHTML

property Typography::$smiley_array¶

(mixed) [ FALSE ] — If emoticons are enabled for the site, this property will contain an array of smiley conversions in key (smiley) => value (image) pairs. If emoticons are not enabled, this will be set to FALSE.

property Typography::$text_fmt_plugins¶

(array) — Array of available installed plugins.

property Typography::$text_fmt_types¶

(array) [ array(‘xhtml’, ‘br’, ‘none’, ‘lite’) ] — Array of standard formatting types available to the Typography class.

property Typography::$text_format¶

(string) [ xhtml / br / none / lite ] — Controls what formatting is applied to text.

property Typography::$use_span_tags¶

(bool) [ TRUE / FALSE ] — Use <span> tags for font color and size BBCode? Setting to FALSE uses <font> tags.

property Typography::$word_censor¶

(bool) [ FALSE ] — Whether or not word censoring is applied. This property is set dynamically based on site preferences and is not necessary to set directly.

property Typography::$yes_no_syntax¶

(array) [ array(‘y’, ‘n’) ] — Array of valid Yes / No strings for use in properties. Used to ensure that valid settings are being provided for a Yes / No type preference.

Parsing Type¶

Typography::parse_type($str[, $prefs = ''])¶

This method returns a string of parsed type. It is the most common use of the Typography class, and many of the individual methods also described in this document are used within the parse_type() method. The format the string is returned in is determined by both the class properties and the array of properties provided in the second argument.:

$str = ee()->typography->parse_type($str);

Parameters:	$str (string) – String to parse $prefs (array) – Associative array containing parsing preferences (see below)
Returns:	Parsed string
Return type:	String

You may override class properties directly in the $prefs array for the following:

• text_format
• html_format
• auto_links
• allow_img_url

$prefs = array(
    'text_format'   => 'xhtml',
    'html_format'   => 'all',
    'auto_links'    => 'y',
    'allow_img_url' => 'y'
);

$str = ee()->typography->parse_type($str, $prefs);

$str = ee()->typography->parse_type($str, array('text_format' => 'markdown'));

$text_format = (in_array('markdown', ee()->typography->text_fmt_plugins)) ? 'markdown' : 'xhtml';
$str = ee()->typography->parse_type($str, array('text_format' => $text_format));

Encode Email Addresses¶

Typography::encode_email($email[, $title = ''[, $anchor = TRUE]])¶

This method encodes email addresses with Javascript, to assist in prevention of email harvesting by bots.:

$str = "[email protected]";
$str = ee()->typography->encode_email($str, "Email Brett Bretterson");

If you want to return a human readable “encoded” email address instead, you can also set the Typography::$encode_type class property to "noscript".

Parameters:	$email (string) – Email address $title (string) – Text to use as the title of the link $anchor (boolean) – Whether to create a clickable link or not
Returns:	Encoded email address
Return type:	String

Auto (XTHML) Typography¶

Typography::auto_typography($str[, $reduce_linebreaks = FALSE])¶

This method takes a string of text and returns typographically correct XHTML:

$str = ee()->typography->auto_typography($str);

Its primary modifications are:

• It turns double spaces into paragraphs.
• It adds line breaks where there are single spaces.
• It turns single and double quotes into curly quotes.
• It turns three dots into ellipsis.
• It turns double dashes into em-dashes.

Parameters:	$str (string) – Text to apply XHTML typography to $reduce_linebreaks (boolean) – Set to TRUE to reduce more than two consecutive newlines to two
Returns:	Formatted and cleaned text
Return type:	String

Formatting Characters for XHTML (“Light” Typography)¶

Typography::format_characters($str)¶

This method performs the character transformation portion of the XHTML typography only, i.e. curly quotes, ellipsis, ampersand, etc.:

$str = ee()->typography->format_characters($str);

Parameters:	$str (string) – Text to apply character formatting to
Returns:	Character formatted text
Return type:	String

Markdown¶

Typography::markdown($str[, $options = array()])¶

This method lets you parse your content using Markdown and Smartypants:

$str = ee()->typography->markdown($str);

Parameters:	$str (string) – String to parse $options (array) – Associative array containing options: encode_ee_tags (yes/no) can be used to disable ee tag encoding smartypants (yes/no) enable or disable smartypants
Returns:	Parsed Markdown content
Return type:	String