Laravel-Bootstrap Starter Site content management - php

Question

I am currently working with the starter site here:
https://github.com/andrewelkins/Laravel-4-Bootstrap-Starter-Site
Any html I put as blog post gets converted to text. For example, tag hi tag(should have brackets around tag) get converted into hi within a div. I want it to just output hi in a tag like a div
Here is the Controller
<?php
class AdminBlogsController extends AdminController {
/**
* Post Model
* #var Post
*/
protected $post;
/**
* Inject the models.
* #param Post $post
*/
public function __construct(Post $post)
{
parent::__construct();
$this->post = $post;
}
/**
* Show a list of all the blog posts.
*
* #return View
*/
public function getIndex()
{
// Title
$title = Lang::get('admin/blogs/title.blog_management');
// Grab all the blog posts
$posts = $this->post;
// Show the page
return View::make('admin/blogs/index', compact('posts', 'title'));
}
/**
* Show the form for creating a new resource.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function getCreate()
{
// Title
$title = Lang::get('admin/blogs/title.create_a_new_blog');
// Show the page
return View::make('admin/blogs/create_edit', compact('title'));
}
/**
* Store a newly created resource in storage.
*
* #return Response
*/
public function postCreate()
{
// Declare the rules for the form validation
$rules = array(
'title' => 'required|min:3',
'content' => 'required|min:3'
);
// Validate the inputs
$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
// Check if the form validates with success
if ($validator->passes())
{
// Create a new blog post
$user = Auth::user();
// Update the blog post data
$this->post->title = Input::get('title');
$this->post->slug = Str::slug(Input::get('title'));
$this->post->content = Input::get('content');
$this->post->meta_title = Input::get('meta-title');
$this->post->meta_description = Input::get('meta-description');
$this->post->meta_keywords = Input::get('meta-keywords');
$this->post->user_id = $user->id;
// Was the blog post created?
if($this->post->save())
{
// Redirect to the new blog post page
return Redirect::to('admin/blogs/' . $this->post->id . '/edit')->with('success', Lang::get('admin/blogs/messages.create.success'));
}
// Redirect to the blog post create page
return Redirect::to('admin/blogs/create')->with('error', Lang::get('admin/blogs/messages.create.error'));
}
// Form validation failed
return Redirect::to('admin/blogs/create')->withInput()->withErrors($validator);
}
/**
* Display the specified resource.
*
* #param $post
* #return Response
*/
public function getShow($post)
{
// redirect to the frontend
}
/**
* Show the form for editing the specified resource.
*
* #param $post
* #return Response
*/
public function getEdit($post)
{
// Title
$title = Lang::get('admin/blogs/title.blog_update');
// Show the page
return View::make('admin/blogs/create_edit', compact('post', 'title'));
}
/**
* Update the specified resource in storage.
*
* #param $post
* #return Response
*/
public function postEdit($post)
{
// Declare the rules for the form validation
$rules = array(
'title' => 'required|min:3',
'content' => 'required|min:3'
);
// Validate the inputs
$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
// Check if the form validates with success
if ($validator->passes())
{
// Update the blog post data
$post->title = Input::get('title');
$post->slug = Str::slug(Input::get('title'));
$post->content = Input::get('content');
$post->meta_title = Input::get('meta-title');
$post->meta_description = Input::get('meta-description');
$post->meta_keywords = Input::get('meta-keywords');
// Was the blog post updated?
if($post->save())
{
// Redirect to the new blog post page
return Redirect::to('admin/blogs/' . $post->id . '/edit')->with('success', Lang::get('admin/blogs/messages.update.success'));
}
// Redirect to the blogs post management page
return Redirect::to('admin/blogs/' . $post->id . '/edit')->with('error', Lang::get('admin/blogs/messages.update.error'));
}
// Form validation failed
return Redirect::to('admin/blogs/' . $post->id . '/edit')->withInput()->withErrors($validator);
}
/**
* Remove the specified resource from storage.
*
* #param $post
* #return Response
*/
public function getDelete($post)
{
// Title
$title = Lang::get('admin/blogs/title.blog_delete');
// Show the page
return View::make('admin/blogs/delete', compact('post', 'title'));
}
/**
* Remove the specified resource from storage.
*
* #param $post
* #return Response
*/
public function postDelete($post)
{
// Declare the rules for the form validation
$rules = array(
'id' => 'required|integer'
);
// Validate the inputs
$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
// Check if the form validates with success
if ($validator->passes())
{
$id = $post->id;
$post->delete();
// Was the blog post deleted?
$post = Post::find($id);
if(empty($post))
{
// Redirect to the blog posts management page
return Redirect::to('admin/blogs')->with('success', Lang::get('admin/blogs/messages.delete.success'));
}
}
// There was a problem deleting the blog post
return Redirect::to('admin/blogs')->with('error', Lang::get('admin/blogs/messages.delete.error'));
}
/**
* Show a list of all the blog posts formatted for Datatables.
*
* #return Datatables JSON
*/
public function getData()
{
$posts = Post::select(array('posts.id', 'posts.title', 'posts.id as comments', 'posts.created_at'));
return Datatables::of($posts)
->edit_column('comments', '{{ DB::table(\'comments\')->where(\'post_id\', \'=\', $id)->count() }}')
->add_column('actions', '<a href="{{{ URL::to(\'admin/blogs/\' . $id . \'/edit\' ) }}}" class="btn btn-default btn-xs iframe" >{{{ Lang::get(\'button.edit\') }}}</a>
{{{ Lang::get(\'button.delete\') }}}
')
->remove_column('id')
->make();
}
}
Here is the Model
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL;
class Post extends Eloquent {
/**
* Deletes a blog post and all
* the associated comments.
*
* #return bool
*/
public function delete()
{
// Delete the comments
$this->comments()->delete();
// Delete the blog post
return parent::delete();
}
/**
* Returns a formatted post content entry,
* this ensures that line breaks are returned.
*
* #return string
*/
public function content()
{
return nl2br($this->content);
}
/**
* Get the post's author.
*
* #return User
*/
public function author()
{
return $this->belongsTo('User', 'user_id');
}
/**
* Get the post's meta_description.
*
* #return string
*/
public function meta_description()
{
return $this->meta_description;
}
/**
* Get the post's meta_keywords.
*
* #return string
*/
public function meta_keywords()
{
return $this->meta_keywords;
}
/**
* Get the post's comments.
*
* #return array
*/
public function comments()
{
return $this->hasMany('Comment');
}
/**
* Get the date the post was created.
*
* #param \Carbon|null $date
* #return string
*/
public function date($date=null)
{
if(is_null($date)) {
$date = $this->created_at;
}
return String::date($date);
}
/**
* Get the URL to the post.
*
* #return string
*/
public function url()
{
return Url::to($this->slug);
}
/**
* Returns the date of the blog post creation,
* on a good and more readable format :)
*
* #return string
*/
public function created_at()
{
return $this->date($this->created_at);
}
/**
* Returns the date of the blog post last update,
* on a good and more readable format :)
*
* #return string
*/
public function updated_at()
{
return $this->date($this->updated_at);
}
}
Thank you in advanced for your help!

Answer 1

This is because the output within the views you are using, is being ran through htmlentities via the blade curly braces {{{ }}}, meaning;
<div>hi </div>
is converted into
<<div>hi </div>
To prevent this and to allow html within posts, change the {{{ }}} to {{ }}.

Answer 2

You have two solutions here:
you can either find in which file the content is being encoded and remove the code that's doing the encoding
or whenever you need to output a value that's encoded, just decode it using HTML::decode(). So for an encoded post content you can write in yout view HTML::decode($post->content).