Rediscoverer

I needed to use HMTLPurifier on my CakePHP application. So I just saved it under the vendors folder inside the application folder. This how the directory strucure looked like.

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+ myApplication
     |-----+ config/
     |-----+ controllers/
     |-----+ models/
     |-----+ plugins/
     |-----+ tmp/
     |-----+ vendors/
     |       |----- HTMLPurifier/
     |       |----- HTMLPurifier.php
     |
     |-----+ views/
     |-----+ webroot/
     |-----+ .htaccess
     |-----+ index.php

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But before including the vendor component, I needed to add the to HTMLPurifier so Cake can find it. So, I added something to HTMLPurifier.php, somewhere before the require_once() statements:

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// START edit -dchx
//Add the path to the vendors folder where HTMLPurifier is located
if (function_exists('ini_set')) {
ini_set('include_path', ini_get('include_path') . PATH_SEPARATOR . dirname(__FILE__));
}

// END edit -dchx

require_once 'HTMLPurifier/ConfigDef.php';
require_once 'HTMLPurifier/Config.php';
require_once 'HTMLPurifier/Lexer.php';
require_once 'HTMLPurifier/HTMLDefinition.php';
require_once 'HTMLPurifier/Generator.php';
require_once 'HTMLPurifier/Strategy/Core.php';
require_once 'HTMLPurifier/Encoder.php';

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Now I’m all set. I just need to to include the component using the CakePHP function uses().

*UPDATE*: Some little update on this. When using HTMLPurifier inside CakePHP (or even in other apps), make sure that the character encoding of the output page is UTF-8. I encountered this little bug where a paragraph tag (p) containing only a non-breaking space was converted into another character. But I checked on my html page and the meta tag Content-type was set to UTF-8 (and of course I’m using XHTML 1.0 Transitional DocType). I fixed it by sending a *content-type header*. In CakePHP, you can do this inside the __beforeFilter()__ function of your controller.

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class MyController extends AppController {

//... the usual

function beforeFilter()
{
header('Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8');
}
}

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