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HTMLEditor and | in insert and update transactions.

Thread began 6/16/2010 6:13 pm by neo314 | Last modified 6/18/2010 4:40 pm by Eric Mittman | 2013 views | 5 replies |

neo314

HTMLEditor and | in insert and update transactions.

How can I easily handle the | character as input in HTMLEditor. In the insert and update transactions it breaks the behavior, and when I added it as a character to encode, the input was completely corrupted.

I can add this code to the page, but I should not have to do this every time I use the editor for insert or update. I suggest that this is not a good separator for Data Assist to use, or DA should encode this character before adding the value to the SQL preparation and decode this character in the SQL statement as part of its routine.

<?php
// encode vertical bars
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
$_POST[$key] = str_replace("|", "&#38;#124;",$value);
}
?>



(I fixed the character rendering, thanx)

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Eric Mittman

This is currently a limitation of DataAssist. Your fix should work to allow the inserts and updates to occur but like you said it will need to be applied manually on DataAssist pages.

For any others that would like to make use of this code the | character was rendered by the forum, you should use this for the replacement value:

&#38;#124;



Both code samples have been updated

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neo314

Thanks for the feedback. I fixed the character rending in the posted code by using the numeric representation of "&"

Why not fix the DA extension. It should not be hard to add the encoding at the top of the transaction and then decode it after the value is exploded?

The only possible negative effect of that is someone who uses the numeric code for the character would get it decoded, but which is really the more common issue with that character vs the transaction failing completely?

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Eric Mittman

This issue is logged as a bug for DA but I have not ETA on a release with the fix.

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neo314

Thanks for letting us know. Have a great weekend.

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Eric Mittman

Sorry for not having any more detail about this release, thanks for being understanding. You have a good weekend as well.

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