Remove HTML from Error Message In CodeIgniter

Question

I have something like this in a CodeIgniter Model

$query = $this->db->insert('something',$data);

if($query)
{
    return true;
}
else
{
    return $this->db->_error_message();
}

What I would very much like to know is, how can I remove the html from the error template generated by CodeIgniter, when the _error_message() function is returned, keeping just the plain error message text?

Any ideas?

v0d1ch · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-15 21:55:05Z

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return strip_tags($this->db->_error_message());

it will strip everything in between <> I didnt know there was any css on page but you can then parse html with dom parser and return only plaintext from div with the id or class that you want

edited Feb 15, 2013 at 21:55

answered Feb 15, 2013 at 12:46

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João Dias Over a year ago

Haven't tried this yet, but, does this exclude the embeeded CSS that comes with the page?

v0d1ch Over a year ago

no it will strip everything in between <> I didnt know there was any css on page but you can then parse html with dom parser and return only plaintext from div with the id or class that you want

João Dias Over a year ago

That is a bit of an overkill for what I pretend to do... But you've got a point on it. Maybe you could edit your answer so I can accept it ;)

v0d1ch Over a year ago

Thanks I edited it. Yes I guess its an overkill since parsing html is bound to slow things down. did you saw this topic about db errors stackoverflow.com/questions/10679714/…

Pattle · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-15 13:01:03Z

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I can't remember exactly of the top of my head but I know that you can sent customs error messages by creating a file in application/language/english

Take a look at this page in the documentation and it should help

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/language.html

answered Feb 15, 2013 at 13:01

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João Dias Over a year ago

But I wanted the SQL error to be retrieved. Not a custom error, although this seems a good backup plan...

Babiker · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-21 00:49:48Z

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The safest way to do it is to go to the errors folder, change your header type to text/plain. Then remove out the html formatting and echo the error messages.

answered Jun 21, 2016 at 0:49

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