added unescaping of html values for blog posts. The function can be reused elsewhere aswell.

controllers/blog.go

@@ -104,8 +104,9 @@ func CreateBlogPost(c *gin.Context) {
 		return
 	}
 	// Create the blog post in the database
-	if db.Create(&data).Error != nil {
-		c.Status(http.StatusNotAcceptable)
+	err = db.Create(&data).Error
+	if err != nil {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusNotAcceptable, "{ \"error\": "+err.Error()+" }")
 	} else {
 		c.Status(http.StatusAccepted)
 	}
@@ -186,6 +187,7 @@ func GetBlogPostById(id string) *models.BlogPost {
 }
 
 func GetCommentsByContent(content string, url string) *[]models.Comment {
+	// This is used to make sure people don't paste the same thing over and over.
 	var comments []models.Comment
 	err := db.Model(&comments).Where("content like ? and associated_post like ?", "%"+content[1:]+"%", url).Scan(&comments).Error
 	if err != nil {

main.go

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.Rawley Fow
 */
 
 import (
+	"html/template"
+
 	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
 	"gitlab.com/rawleyifowler/site-rework/bootstrap"
 )
@@ -28,6 +30,13 @@ var dsn string
 func main() {
 	router = gin.Default()
 	router.Use(gin.Recovery())
+	// Create function map for templates that will unescape HTML from the database
+	// Credits to: https://h1z3y3.me/posts/go-html-template-script-unescape
+	funcMap := make(template.FuncMap)
+	funcMap["UnescapeHTML"] = func(s string) template.HTML {
+		return template.HTML(s)
+	}
+	router.SetFuncMap(funcMap)
 	// This needs to change because of RCCTL in OpenBSD, not sure if you can use a ksh variable as path in Gin but i'll test
 	router.LoadHTMLGlob("templates/*.tmpl")
 	bootstrap.InitializeRoutes(router)

templates/blog_post.tmpl

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {{ template "header.tmpl" . }}
 <div>
 	<h2>{{ .Post.Title }}</h2>
-	<div>{{ .Post.Content }}</div>
+	<div>{{ .Post.Content | UnescapeHTML }}</div>
 <h4>Comments</h4>
 {{ range $comment := .Post.Comments }}
 	<div class="comment">