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HTML Title Tag Missing The Post Title (Sometimes)
#262365 02/18/2019 12:19 PM
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UBB v 7.7.1

Some posts made are missing part of the title in the html HEAD section and only including the forum title. See below for example. This is happening in 1 of every 5 posts I make.

These are posts made in Ubb/HTML mode.

It does not happen every time and I have not yet found the pattern that consistently produces this behavior, but it is definitely occurring since my upgrade from 7.5x to 7.7x. I never saw it happen with 7.5.

Example of what the HTML TITLE tag looks like when this happens. Notice the board title is there but the post title is not:

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<title> - The Orbis Vitae Community</title>

Thanks and I hope this helps.

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Re: HTML Title Tag Missing The Post Title (Sometimes)
mmem700 #262366 02/18/2019 12:24 PM
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Are you running stock forum code, or have you modified it in any way?

Can you share/post a link to a page that is producing this result, so that the cause of this can be reviewed.

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Re: HTML Title Tag Missing The Post Title (Sometimes)
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UBB v 7.7.1

I am finding that the breadcrumbs are only showing "Home" after posts are made.

See attached image.

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Re: HTML Title Tag Missing The Post Title (Sometimes)
mmem700 #262368 02/18/2019 12:53 PM
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Here's a link that's doing it:

http://orbisvitae.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=86012#Post86012

It may be related to quotes in the title, but not sure yet.

The posts I saw it happening in were all posted in UBB/HTML mode.

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Re: HTML Title Tag Missing The Post Title (Sometimes)
mmem700 #262371 02/18/2019 2:13 PM
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I've PMd you the 'bug' @isaac.

libs/html.inc.php, where it removes whitespace from InputTitle / Breadcrumbs.

If board is charset ISO, that sanitation 'breaks' titles/breadcrumbs..

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mmem700 #262381 02/20/2019 12:37 PM
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I apologize. I apparently reported 2 different bugs in the same thread. My mistake.

1. About breadcrumbs missing.
2. About missing subject from HTML title tag.

Here is a graphic showing what is happening to the HTML title tag when non-alpha-numeric characters are present in the post title. This was posted in HTML mode, in case that makes a difference.

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Re: HTML Title Tag Missing The Post Title (Sometimes)
mmem700 #262384 02/20/2019 2:17 PM
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Its the non-UTF character in your subject (’); if your forums were in UTF8 the character would process, but you're still using the iso-8859-1 character set which has been depreciated since the ISO "Working Group" disbanded in 2004.

An example of special characters in a subject line (its not an alphanumeric (A-Z0-9) issue (which would mean a problem with standard punctuation characters)) of a UTF forum can be found attached.
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Re: HTML Title Tag Missing The Post Title (Sometimes)
mmem700 #262393 02/21/2019 3:30 PM
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short term stopgap is:

PHP Code

		//$inputTitle = preg_replace(array('/^\s\s+/', '/\s\s+$/', '/\s\s+/u'), array('', '', ' '), $inputTitle);
		//$breadcrumb = preg_replace(array('/^\s\s+/', '/\s\s+$/', '/\s\s+/u'), array('', '', ' '), $breadcrumb);
		$inputTitle = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/',' ', $inputTitle));
		$breadcrumb = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/',' ', $breadcrumb));

that doesn't break boards with ISO-8859-1 charset.

file: libs/html.inc.php, i left the 2 original lines in and just commented them out for now.

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