New Listings Title Characters not Displaying Correctly

[shanedawg +]

Hi all.

I'm sure there is an easy fix for this. When someone tries to use " or & in their title of their listing, those characters are followed by some sort of error. For example

& or "quot;

However, if I click on the ad, everything shows just fine on the actual ad.

See the attached picture of one such listing. I can correct this manually by retyping their title as an admin.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Lhotch +]

Shane, what you are looking at there is actually a plugin and it would appear the plugin cant handle the special characters. Thats why it looks fine everywhere else.

[seymourjames +]

This is an old problem because two lots of amps are actually being stored in the database (&amp) in the database when the data is being entered in the checkout process. They get cleaned up successfully in showlisitings and viewlistings but this also needs to be done in the plugins or indeed else where if you are using the listing titles.

The soltuion is to go into each of your plugins and replace

$tmp = array(
'id' => $row['id'],
'image'=> $image,
'title'=> $row['title'],
'price'=> FormatCurrency($row['price']),
);

with this


$tmp = array('id' => $row['id'] , 'image' => $image , 'title' => unhtmlentities($row['title']) , 'price' => FormatCurrency($row['price']));

The ampersand will then be rendered correctly. Make this change in each of the 3 plugins (latest, featured and random).

[shanedawg +]

@seymourjames,

By "latest" did you mean function.new_listings.php?

If so, I tried your suggestion on that file and then tested it. The New Listings display still displays the faulty characters.

[seymourjames +]

NO. I am talking about these files if you have them and are consequently affected.

function.css_feature_listings_horizontal.php
function.css_latest_listings_horizontal.php
function.css_random_listings_horizontal.php

[shanedawg +]

That did the trick!

Thank you for the help.

I've been impressed by the help on the forums and by Template Codes so far. I'm so glad I chose 68 Classifieds for my site.

[Bronxgodzilla +]

Thanks much David, for the heads up. I did notice this once in my testing & was going to bring it up...
I have modified my files for my opening soon, so now it is a never-to-be problem. Thanks Shane for spotting it.
Great show. & Great Support.

BarryG