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1. randyhoyt
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   When I use an apostrophe in a field, the code escapes them with a backslash:

   This plugin's awesome!

   becomes

   This plugin\'s awesome!

   When I edit the content again, though, the backslashes appears. If I change something else and hit save, it becomes:

   This plugin\\\'s awesome

   And this keeps happening indefinitely.

   When the content is loaded on the page, the backslashes should be removed.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/projectmanager/

2. Kolja
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Will check it. Does this problem only occur when using AJAX editing or also normal adding/editing of datasets?

3. randyhoyt
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It happens when I add a new dataset and when I edit an existing dataset using the normal editor.

   I just tried it using the AJAX editor, and it actually has a different problem. It adds the backslash but then cuts off everything after that. So this ...

   This plugin's awesome!

   ... becomes ...

   This plugin

4. randyhoyt
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I took a stab at fixing this myself. It seems to work fine but -- since I'm not a PHP programmer or anything -- it may break something else.

   ----

   In dataset-form.php, I changed two lines to use HTML encoding for single and double quote marks. (The issue here seems to be that a quote mark in the field gets treated like the end of the attribute in HTML.)

   5. ... $name ...

   5. ... str_replace("\"", """, str_replace("\'", "'", $name)) ...

   and

   26. [blank]

   26. <?php $meta_data[$form_field->id] = str_replace("\"", "&quot;", str_replace("\'", "'", $meta_data[$form_field->id])); ?>

   ----

   I changed quite a few lines in admin.php, wrapping attributes in the stripslashes function to remove the unwanted backslashes.

   510. ... name ...

   510. ... stripslashes($name) ...

   and

   525. $meta_value

   525. stripslashes($meta_value)

   and

   584. [same as 525]

   and

   586. [same as 525]

   ----

   (@koelle, I will email my modified files to you directly. I started from ProjectManager 2.1.)

5. randyhoyt
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   ProjectManager 2.2 takes care of this. Thanks!

6. bestillknowgod
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Randy,

   I'm having the same problem with backslashes appearing before apostrophes.

   I didn't quite follow your fix above. Is the text in each box the code you placed in each line?

   Thanks,

   Robert

7. randyhoyt
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The first box for each line number listed the original code, while the second box for each line number listed the change.

   However, I don't think these changes are necessary any more. The latest version of the plugin addresses this. What version are you running?

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