bigPaws Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 We set up a few forums with & in their title, like "Diet & Nutrition" but the friendly URL is ugly: .../forum/92-diet-%26-nutrition/ I then noticed there wasn't a single forum here on IPS Community which had an & in the title. Is there any way to get better support for & when the script builds a friendly URL? Can we remove the %26 in the meantime some how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPhilip Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Ours is OK: "Foo.com Questions, Comments, & Suggestions" turns into /forum/23-foocom-questions-comments-suggestions/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigPaws Posted November 13, 2012 Author Share Posted November 13, 2012 That's interesting, thanks. I went back and edited the titles in admin CP, removed the & sign and typed it again (just to be sure!) and then clicked submit. This seemed to fix the problem. I wonder if I've found a bug? Some of the forums where we had %26 were brand new - but you can remove it by editing the forum after creating it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Modding Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 sounds like it, unless somehow it was not a normal & typed the first time (I have no idea if there are other characters that look like one? doubt it though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin A. Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 I can't duplicate this in 3.4 beta, so it's most likely a bug that has been fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Ashbrook Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 I can't reproduce this in 3.3 either... that character can't be used in Friendly URL's (it's used as a parameter separator in PHP) so we actively remove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigPaws Posted November 13, 2012 Author Share Posted November 13, 2012 How strange, some of the forums that had %26 in were forums I set up directly within Admin CP and while running the latest version. There's an outside chance I copied and pasted them from a Google Doc if the helps at all? As in maybe it accidentally didn't clean up the code? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Ashbrook Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 That's a possibility, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Modding Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 That's what I was wondering also, but I didn't post it last time because I would have thought formating wouldn't matter for that, but it actually could be. Who knows. I've had a ton of weird things happen in ip.board for years and years which nobody can ever reproduce. A lot of my old topics even said the last poster in tehm was someone who was not the last poster. And some of my forums said they had a negative number of replies. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheddy Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Ryan, I have never had a problem using the ampersand "&" in my forum names. I don't know why the OP is having problems with the ampersand but he might want to try "recaching" his forum from the board ACP. I've been having problems with installing plugins and various applications and usually recaching my forums seems to fix the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigPaws Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 Just to confirm that this is a bug - at least for my installation. I can replicate this, I just created a new forum with no copy/paste and had the %26 thing again. Ryan (IPS) you are welcome to login and create (temporarily please, or with hidden perms) a forum with an & in it on my site - see old ticket for login details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Modding Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 just tried it on mine and it worked fine. I only tried it quickly as a subforum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigPaws Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 Which version are you running? I'll open a fresh support ticket so the IPS team can login to my server and see if they can replicate it themselves. Watch this space :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Modding Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 I am using 3.3.4. It must be some issue which for some reaosn only happens under certain circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheddy Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 I think there's something missing here. Have you tried using Notepad to type your new forum name and then copy and paste that forum name into the field for your new forum name? If there are certain hidden attributes when you're typing directly into the field, this might fix the problem. I think there might be that when you type in your new forum name that something is hidden in your clipboard that is causing the special characters to appear. I have to say that while it's happened to me when posting messages, it has never affected me when using the ACP. Typing in your forum name in Notepad and using the cut and paste method by transferring it from Notepad to ACP might indicate either something is trapped in your desktop clipboard or maybe there's something in your forum's cache that is doing this. Have you tried also to recache the contents of yoour forum? I do that about once per month, to ensure that my forum cache is clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigPaws Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 Very odd. I went through last week (when I started this topic) and removed all the %26 from the forum names. Just checked today and every time I have an & it's gone back to %26! Very strange one, scheduled task doing something? Will open support ticket, but wanted to keep you all in the loop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 wonder if there is database optimize and repair converting to ascii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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