WP_HTML_Tag_Processor::set_modifiable_text() │ public │ WP 6.7.0

Sets the modifiable text for the matched token, if matched.

Modifiable text is text content that may be read and changed without changing the HTML structure of the document around it. This includes the contents of #text nodes in the HTML as well as the inner contents of HTML comments, Processing Instructions, and others, even though these nodes aren't part of a parsed DOM tree. They also contain the contents of SCRIPT and STYLE tags, of TEXTAREA tags, and of any other section in an HTML document which cannot contain HTML markup (DATA).

Not all modifiable text may be set by this method, and not all content may be set as modifiable text. In the case that this fails it will return false indicating as much. For instance, it will not allow inserting the string </script into a SCRIPT element, because the rules for escaping that safely are complicated. Similarly, it will not allow setting content into a comment which would prematurely terminate the comment.

Example:

// Add a preface to all STYLE contents.
while ( $processor->next_tag( 'STYLE' ) ) {
	$style = $processor->get_modifiable_text();
	$processor->set_modifiable_text( "// Made with love on the World Wide Web\n{$style}" );
}

// Replace smiley text with Emoji smilies.
while ( $processor->next_token() ) {
	if ( '#text' !== $processor->get_token_name() ) {
		continue;
	}

$chunk = $processor->get_modifiable_text(); if ( ! str_contains( $chunk, ':)' ) ) { continue; }

$processor->set_modifiable_text( str_replace( ':)', '🙂', $chunk ) );

}

Method of the class: WP_HTML_Tag_Processor{}

No Hooks.

Return

true|false. Whether the text was able to update.

Usage

$WP_HTML_Tag_Processor = new WP_HTML_Tag_Processor();
$WP_HTML_Tag_Processor->set_modifiable_text( $plaintext_content ): bool;

$plaintext_content(string) (required)

New text content to represent in the matched token.

Changelog

WP_HTML_Tag_Processor::set_modifiable_text() WP HTML Tag Processor::set modifiable text code ^{WP 6.7.1}

public function set_modifiable_text( string $plaintext_content ): bool {
	if ( self::STATE_TEXT_NODE === $this->parser_state ) {
		$this->lexical_updates['modifiable text'] = new WP_HTML_Text_Replacement(
			$this->text_starts_at,
			$this->text_length,
			htmlspecialchars( $plaintext_content, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5 )
		);

		return true;
	}

	// Comment data is not encoded.
	if (
		self::STATE_COMMENT === $this->parser_state &&
		self::COMMENT_AS_HTML_COMMENT === $this->comment_type
	) {
		// Check if the text could close the comment.
		if ( 1 === preg_match( '/--!?>/', $plaintext_content ) ) {
			return false;
		}

		$this->lexical_updates['modifiable text'] = new WP_HTML_Text_Replacement(
			$this->text_starts_at,
			$this->text_length,
			$plaintext_content
		);

		return true;
	}

	if ( self::STATE_MATCHED_TAG !== $this->parser_state ) {
		return false;
	}

	switch ( $this->get_tag() ) {
		case 'SCRIPT':
			/*
			 * This is over-protective, but ensures the update doesn't break
			 * out of the SCRIPT element. A more thorough check would need to
			 * ensure that the script closing tag doesn't exist, and isn't
			 * also "hidden" inside the script double-escaped state.
			 *
			 * It may seem like replacing `</script` with `<\/script` would
			 * properly escape these things, but this could mask regex patterns
			 * that previously worked. Resolve this by not sending `</script`
			 */
			if ( false !== stripos( $plaintext_content, '</script' ) ) {
				return false;
			}

			$this->lexical_updates['modifiable text'] = new WP_HTML_Text_Replacement(
				$this->text_starts_at,
				$this->text_length,
				$plaintext_content
			);

			return true;

		case 'STYLE':
			$plaintext_content = preg_replace_callback(
				'~</(?P<TAG_NAME>style)~i',
				static function ( $tag_match ) {
					return "\\3c\\2f{$tag_match['TAG_NAME']}";
				},
				$plaintext_content
			);

			$this->lexical_updates['modifiable text'] = new WP_HTML_Text_Replacement(
				$this->text_starts_at,
				$this->text_length,
				$plaintext_content
			);

			return true;

		case 'TEXTAREA':
		case 'TITLE':
			$plaintext_content = preg_replace_callback(
				"~</(?P<TAG_NAME>{$this->get_tag()})~i",
				static function ( $tag_match ) {
					return "&lt;/{$tag_match['TAG_NAME']}";
				},
				$plaintext_content
			);

			/*
			 * These don't _need_ to be escaped, but since they are decoded it's
			 * safe to leave them escaped and this can prevent other code from
			 * naively detecting tags within the contents.
			 *
			 * @todo It would be useful to prefix a multiline replacement text
			 *       with a newline, but not necessary. This is for aesthetics.
			 */
			$this->lexical_updates['modifiable text'] = new WP_HTML_Text_Replacement(
				$this->text_starts_at,
				$this->text_length,
				$plaintext_content
			);

			return true;
	}

	return false;
}