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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Modifying the BBCode plugin in FlatPress

I like FlatPress!
I’ve found that the standard BBCode plugin does not allow to specify the “alt” tag for images.
To enable this feature I’ve modified the do_bbcode_img function, in the plugin.bbcode.php file, by expading the line:

	$alt = $title = basename($actualpath);

into:

if (isset($attributes['alt'])) {
	$alt = $title = htmlspecialchars($attributes['alt']);
}
else {
	$alt = $title = basename($actualpath);
}

This simple modification allows me to write, for example:

[img=images/ae.png popup=true alt='My custom made image title']

obtaing the following output (hover the mouse on the image) and the good side-effect, almost for free, is that the new title is also used by lightbox (click on the image):

PS: the htmlspecialchars() function is invoked to prevent the use of malicious html/javascript code by bad guys.

• Posted by esuli at 16:17:58 in Programming
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