Re: [phpodpworld-users] Categories with the ' characters

[Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...>]

* Howard Lee <hl...@gm...> [2007-07-02]:
> Dear all,
> 
> Some of the DMOZ categories have the ' character. I found that these
> categories are not displayed. It seems the ' character is escaped and
> displayed as \'. For example, this error message is shown when I
> access the page:
> The category "Reference: Education: Colleges and Universities: North
> America: United States: Women\'s Colleges" was not found.
> 
> I checked the apache log and it is not escaped.
> 210.17.204.242 - - [02/Jul/2007:01:58:57 -0700] "GET
> /Reference/Education/Colleges_and_Universities/North_America/United_States/Women's_Colleges
> HTTP/1.1" 200 1897 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT
> 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
> 
> I am using MySQL 5.0 as the database, and the category is indeed
> there. Does anybody experience the same problem? Thank you.

As you all know (?), phpodpworld is just a hobby project of mine. It
basically means there are plenty of bugs - this is one of them. My
guess is that you have activated magic_quotes_gpc[1] and my code isn't
checking for that. Could you please try to turn off magic_quotes_gpc
and see if the problem is fixed? If so, I'll add some checks for magic
quotes before the next release.

Hans

[1] This is a PHP setting so it will not affect the Apache logs.
    (Look in your php.ini. It can be disabled at directory level 
    using .htaccess.)