& been replaced by & breaking error reporting

[Shadow-Lord]

In includes\functions\html_output.php

		if ( (SEARCH_ENGINE_FRIENDLY_URLS == 'true') && ($search_engine_safe == true) ) {
	  $link = str_replace('?', '/', $link);
	  $link = str_replace('&', '/', $link);
	  $link = str_replace('=', '/', $link);
	} else {
	  $link = str_replace('&', '&', $link);
	}

 

 

This is breaking error reporting in some modules.

 

In Sage Pay the error url should be:

http://www.example.com/checkout_payment.php?payment_error=sage_pay_server&error=4000

 

 

but it is been changed to:

http://www.example.com/checkout_payment.php?payment_error=sage_pay_server&error=4000

 

 

So no error description is shown.

[♥Monika in Germany]

did you try commenting out

 

 

$link = str_replace('&', '&', $link);

[Shadow-Lord]

Hi,

 

That could be done, but is there any other way to do this so that it will keep the page Search Engine Friendly.

Is there another way to add a variable to a link without using the '&'.

[♥Monika in Germany]

commenting out that line will make the page not be search engine friendly anymore?

[Guest]

I have had the same problem with the contribution "Shopping Cart as Tooltip". You get an error "not found on this server" because the url changes from & to & when clicked.

I changed the html_output from:

$link = str_replace('&', '&', $link);

to

$link = str_replace('&', '&', $link);

 

This works, but it invalidates the code on the pages. This is the error:

& did not start a character reference (& probably should have been escaped as &)

 

On the "Shopping Cart as Tooltip" contribution page someone wrote:

 

That is except i have Ultimate SEO URLs installed and get this message when I click on Buy Now:

The requested URL /catalog/microsoft-intellimouse-explorer-p-26 was not found on this server.

But Backspace fixes this.

 

So it seems for them Backspace fixed the problem. I just don't know what this refers to. If it does work somehow, it may fix the problem in SagePay too.

 

Anybody have any ideas?

[Jack_mcs]

Hi,

 

That could be done, but is there any other way to do this so that it will keep the page Search Engine Friendly.

Is there another way to add a variable to a link without using the '&'.

That option had problems in pre-2.3 shops. I don't know if it still does but, in the least, the url's it generates have never has been considered very good with regards to seo so most shop owners, in my experience, opt for one of the url rewriter contributions. So before you get too many url's indexed, you may want to give a thought to whether you want to switch or not.

[Guest]

Hi Jack,

Is there some way that I can get the "Shopping Cart as Tooltip" contribution working without having to change this: $link = str_replace('&', '&', $link);

 

It is pretty much the same problem as Shadow_lord is having, with the & changing to & in the url. I don't want to change to using a url rewriter. Maybe in .htaccess is there a way to just rewrite the & symbol?

[Jack_mcs]

Hi Jack,

Is there some way that I can get the "Shopping Cart as Tooltip" contribution working without having to change this: $link = str_replace('&', '&', $link);

 

It is pretty much the same problem as Shadow_lord is having, with the & changing to & in the url. I don't want to change to using a url rewriter. Maybe in .htaccess is there a way to just rewrite the & symbol?

Any problem/question regarding a contribution should be asked in that contributions thread since that is where the people that update and use it are likely to see it. I'm not familiar with that contribution so I can't offer any thoughs on it.

[Guest]

Hi Shadow-Lord,

 

You can add the following code to your .htaccess file to rewrite & to & which should solve your problem.

 

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)&(.*)$

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?%1&%2 [L,R=301]

 

Best regards,

 

Ian