Class CGI
In: lib/more/facets/cgi.rb
Parent: Object

CGI Extensions

Methods

esc   escformat   marshal_from_cgi   marshal_to_cgi  

External Aliases

escapeHTML -> escape_html
unescapeHTML -> unescape_html
escapeElement -> escape_element
unescapeElement -> unescape_element

Public Instance methods

esc(str)

Return an html "safe" version of the string, where every &, < and > are replaced with appropriate entities.

[Source]

    # File lib/more/facets/cgi.rb, line 33
33:   def esc(str)
34:     str.gsub(/&/,'&amp;').gsub(/</,'&lt;').gsub(/>/,'&gt;')
35:   end
escformat(str)

Calls esc, and then further replaces carriage returns and quote characters with entities.

[Source]

    # File lib/more/facets/cgi.rb, line 38
38:   def escformat(str)
39:     esc(str).gsub(/[\r\n]+/,'&#13;&#10;').gsub(%r|"|,'&quot;').gsub(%r|'|,'&#39;')
40:   end
marshal_from_cgi(name)

Create an hidden input field through which an object can can be marshalled. This makes it very easy to pass from data between requests.

[Source]

    # File lib/more/facets/cgi.rb, line 21
21:   def marshal_from_cgi(name)
22:     if self.params.has_key?("__#{name}__")
23:       return Marshal.load(CGI.unescape(self["__#{name}__"][0]))
24:     end
25:   end
marshal_to_cgi(name, iobj)

Create an hidden input field through which an object can can be marshalled. This makes it very easy to pass from data betwenn requests.

[Source]

    # File lib/more/facets/cgi.rb, line 14
14:   def marshal_to_cgi(name, iobj)
15:     data = CGI.escape(Marshal.dump(iobj))
16:     return %Q{<input type="hidden" name="__#{name}__" value="#{data}"/>\n}
17:   end

[Validate]