UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 7 Bug Reports Fixed Bugs [Fixed 7.3][7.2.2] Categories with double quotes not showing up in Category Settings

I've noticed that some of our categories are not showing up in Category Settings. They display in the Forum management screens, display on the board, but when I go to Category Settings, the Name Fields are blank. This was present this morning in 7.2.1, and is still present after upgrading to 7.2.2.

In the database, I can clearly see the expected fields in the CATEGORY_TITLE fields in the ubbt_categories table.

Thanks,
Tim

2 ways to fix it.. 1st is workaround. 2nd is 1 line code change.

1. Change your double quotes to single.

or

2. open admin/catmanage.php
2a. find: 2b. replace:

Wouldn't it be better to just use htmlspecialchars?

edit: i like giz' idea.

A simple "no" would have been sufficient lol...

You might wanna try just putting in "

yah blaaskaak, that works with no change, so call that option 3 (maybe should even be 1)

and giz, the more i think about it.. you are right... i prefer htmlspecialchars..

giz 1, sd 0

then i get dinged for < 15 :neener:

I used &amp; to get my catagories xhtml valid. With just an & it gave a warning.


Me too, makes the whole page more xhtml valid.

<< Validation Nazi...

go fig, he makes me feel like crap (it's truely been a very bad night) and then agrees with me; talk about being confused...

this is your once yearly -- giz.. so no need to be confused..

I'll leave you with a Jack Handy deep thought:

Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth.

I went into the database, changed them to "& quot ;" (added spaces to avoid turning into a quote). They displayed fine. But, I then got an idea and applied an update to the category management screen and they all went back to doublequotes and were invisible again in the management screen.

I'll go ahead change them back to "& quot ;" in the database for now as to avoid confusing the other admin with blank category fields (like I almost got confused and nearly deleted the "empty" ones, but thought to double-check the database out of paranoia.)

I will discuss with the powers that be the possibility of changing to single quotes though.

Thanks!

if you want to get back what the user typed in and have them NOT have to think "oh yah, it's a quote, so i have to do ".."

you'd just do htmlspecialchars fix (#2)..

To type &quot; you have to type &amp;quot;

[edit: wow I got it right the first time ;)]

I got the OK to change them all to single quotes.

with htmlspecialchars no one has to remember to type things as single or double quotes; it'll encode them on its own as it encounters them...

And I think SD just admitted to peeing his pants... I didn't know he was an astranaught...

/me bashes giz over the head with the BUILT IN firefox spell checker..

astranaught ?

you are slowly creating a new language daily

'eh it didn't catch it... the suggestions where just straight bizarre... Besides, you know you love GizSpeach...

of course it didn't catch it, it was laughing too hard

reminds me of a friend i've had for many years. he's prolly one of the most knowledgeable process control guys out there, but when he goes to google and queries.. google just flat out say "huh? wtf do you mean?" (paraphrased of course)

*poof* fixed