hide some HTML coded chars from markdownification

diff --git a/include/bb2diaspora.php b/include/bb2diaspora.php
index 919bfc331d2ca95891be5b2fa2d262e532ebf806..34c932f7457c9306d28e696408ff7a3d320d22cd 100644 (file)
--- a/include/bb2diaspora.php
+++ b/include/bb2diaspora.php
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ function bb2diaspora($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $fordiaspora = true) {
        } else
                $Text = bbcode($Text, $preserve_nl, false, 4);
 
+    // mask some special HTML chars from conversation to markdown
+    $Text = str_replace(array('<','>','&'),array('&_lt_;','&_gt_;','&_amp_;'),$Text);
+
        // If a link is followed by a quote then there should be a newline before it
        // Maybe we should make this newline at every time before a quote.
        $Text = str_replace(array("</a><blockquote>"), array("</a><br><blockquote>"), $Text);
@@ -104,6 +107,9 @@ function bb2diaspora($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $fordiaspora = true) {
        // Now convert HTML to Markdown
        $Text = new HTML_To_Markdown($Text);
 
+    // unmask the special chars back to HTML
+    $Text = str_replace(array('&_lt_;','&_gt_;','&_amp_;'),array('&lt;','&gt;','&amp;'),$Text);
+
        $a->save_timestamp($stamp1, "parser");
 
        // Libertree has a problem with escaped hashtags.