Typography Helper
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The Typography Helper file contains functions that help your format
text in semantically relevant ways.

* Loading this Helper

* Available Functions


Loading this Helper
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This helper is loaded using the following code:

   $this->load->helper('typography');


Available Functions
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The following functions are available:

auto_typography($str[, $reduce_linebreaks = FALSE])

   Parameters:
      * **$str** ("string") – Input string

      * **$reduce_linebreaks** ("bool") – Whether to reduce multiple
        instances of double newlines to two

   Returns:
      HTML-formatted typography-safe string

   Return type:
      "string"

   Formats text so that it is semantically and typographically correct
   HTML.

   This function is an alias for "CI_Typography::auto_typography()".
   For more info, please see the Typography Library documentation.

   Usage example:

      $string = auto_typography($string);

   Note:

     Typographic formatting can be processor intensive, particularly
     if you have a lot of content being formatted. If you choose to
     use this function you may want to consider caching your pages.

nl2br_except_pre($str)

   Parameters:
      * **$str** ("string") – Input string

   Returns:
      String with HTML-formatted line breaks

   Return type:
      "string"

   Converts newlines to 
 tags unless they appear within <pre>
   tags. This function is identical to the native PHP "nl2br()"
   function, except that it ignores <pre> tags.

   Usage example:

      $string = nl2br_except_pre($string);

entity_decode($str, $charset = NULL)

   Parameters:
      * **$str** ("string") – Input string

      * **$charset** ("string") – Character set

   Returns:
      String with decoded HTML entities

   Return type:
      "string"

   This function is an alias for "CI_Security::entity_decode()". Fore
   more info, please see the Security Library documentation.
