special characters in product/categories titles unescaped when editing

[Guest]

I'm not too good in stripslashes/escape unescape and all that stuff :-(

 

A client of mine has a lot of products with ™ and ® in his titles, and everytime I edit and save a product or category, the real ? or ? is back in the code, not displayable in browsers.

 

Thanks!

[djmonkey1]

What is it that you're trying to display, the "TM" symbol or "™"?

[Guest]

What is it that you're trying to display, the "TM" symbol or "™"?

 

Both :-)

 

here is the site:

 

http://www.safeskieslocks.com/store/milano...brass-p-60.html

 

right now, all TM and ? are ok, but next time my client is going to edit a product, blammmm :-)

 

Thanks!

[djmonkey1]

If you want "™" to always show up as "™" you should be able to just write it as "™".

[Guest]

If you want "™" to always show up as "™" you should be able to just write it as "™".

 

You don't understand my problem, let me rephrase

 

I DO want ? and ? being displayed liek symbols on the site.

for this, I need to enter ® and ™ in my admin fields. I save, everything is fine and displays corectly on the site.

 

IF I GO BACK to edit a product or a category in the admin side, I see ? and ? in the editabe fields instead of

® and ™ thus causing gibberish symbols to show up on the site after I save

[djmonkey1]

That's strange- I tried this on my test store and didn't have a problem (ie after editing the product the symbols still show up fine).

[Guest]

That's strange- I tried this on my test store and didn't have a problem (ie after editing the product the symbols still show up fine).

 

when you save and then reedit, do you still see an ™ or the rendered symbol?

[djmonkey1]

when you save and then reedit, do you still see an ™ or the rendered symbol?

The rendered symbol, but it still shows up ok in the browser.

 

I've been digging through categories.php for almost an hour trying to figure out where ™ becomes ? but I can't find it. Maybe the PHP itself is doing it?

[Guest]

The rendered symbol, but it still shows up ok in the browser.

 

I've been digging through categories.php for almost an hour trying to figure out where ™ becomes ? but I can't find it. Maybe the PHP itself is doing it?

 

Maybe my browser has something to do with it (Safari)

 

But I know that there is a file in Oscomm that escapes/unescapes stripslashes - anyway cleans the strings before they are stored in the database. Don't know where in what file though.

[djmonkey1]

For me it works fine in Firefox 1.5.0.7, IE6, and Opera 9.02.

 

I think the function you're referring to is this one from admin/includes/functions/database.php:

function tep_db_prepare_input($string) {
if (is_string($string)) {
  return trim(stripslashes($string));
} elseif (is_array($string)) {
  reset($string);
  while (list($key, $value) = each($string)) {
	$string[$key] = tep_db_prepare_input($value);
  }
  return $string;
} else {
  return $string;
}
 }

But there's nothing in there that reformats HTML code into rendered symbols.