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Geek Culture / [LOCKED] Apostrophes and forward slashes - wazzup wiv dat?

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blanky
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Posted: 28th Jan 2005 22:08
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Right, quite a few people have noticed the problem with apostrophes and forward slashes..

*SOMETIMES*, forward slashes have a tendency to disappear, and to appear in front of apostrophes - the 'Location:' bit under my avatar is such an example.

If you edit a post, forward slashes disappear from the edit box, and appear if the forum tells you to re-edit your post - for example, if you include swear words in the 'message' box.

I believe this is because the forum internally adds slashes before apostrophes, and takes them away again afterwards, and there's something wrong with it..

Can anybody comment on this?

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Posted: 28th Jan 2005 22:31
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Yes

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blanky
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Posted: 28th Jan 2005 22:53
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If everybody answered every question like that, the world would be a better place for us all..

'And where do you think YOU'RE going?'
'Yes.'

'Can I have some money?'
'Yes.'

'Do cats rule?'
'Yes.'

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Posted: 28th Jan 2005 23:14 Edited at: 28th Jan 2005 23:15
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Its straight to the point. You asked if someone would comment on your problem, and I said yes... You didn't actually ask for a specific comment.

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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*detects sagitariusism in squidgy*

I had a girl tell me once that because of the fact im sagitarius she'll always come to me to ask what her make up looks like. because sagitarius are blunt, frank and to the point.

"does my hair suck?"
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Posted: 29th Jan 2005 01:59
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If your post is rejected at first, they will appear in the body of the text. It has to do with PHP, but I can't specifically explain.

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Quote: " *detects sagitariusism in squidgy*"

No, way out - as everyone will know when I announce something profoundly important on Sunday.

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Quote: "as everyone will know when I announce something profoundly important on Sunday"

You're pregnant...
You're better half (if existant) is pregnant...
You've lost the ability to make answers of more than one sylable..


I give up

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Quote: "You're pregnant..."

Not that I know of...

Quote: "You're better half (if existant) is pregnant..."

No - try again.

Quote: "You've lost the ability to make answers of more than one sylable.."

Maybe.

Quote: "I give up"

Everyone does eventually.

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Posted: 29th Jan 2005 02:53
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Can you tell us if it's good or bad news?

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Who for ? You or me ?

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Posted: 29th Jan 2005 03:33
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For you, I doubt it will affect me that much

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David T
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Posted: 29th Jan 2005 03:58
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Its PHP escaping them. Otherwise, you could type a ' into a post body and when it gets put into the SQL query it'd cause all sorts of nastiness.

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Thought someone would answer this already.

What you are looking for is "magic quotes". Read up:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=magic+quotes&meta=
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Posted: 29th Jan 2005 04:34
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Quote: "Thought someone would answer this already."


I did

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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*detects soemone's birthday coming up on sunday*.

basically what it is, in PHP to see some punctuation in text and so it doesnt confuse itself with php syntax, you put a "\" infront to say its part of the text, if darkbasic used this method then you could do this:

Print "Bob says \"hi\""

the parser reads the "\" so knows not to do what the following character does, since in this case the following " would end the print statement.

so on the screen you get:

bob says "hi"

not

[ERROR AT LINE 1: CODE IS BORKED]

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Posted: 29th Jan 2005 11:15 Edited at: 29th Jan 2005 11:24
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testing to see if what you suggested El_goorf worked. My location was messed up before with the slash
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Benjamin
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Posted: 27th Mar 2005 05:59
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I've also noticed that when a thread title contains certain characters, on the top section of the board only the first part of the title shows up(everything before the special character(s)). Wonder whats up with that


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Posted: 27th Mar 2005 12:43
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Escape characters, + is one



(i think)

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Posted: 27th Mar 2005 14:51
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I've noticed in Firefox that slashes appear when they shouldn't.


*Methinks Squidgy's going to shoot the Easter Bunny tonight and plans on announcing its death tomorrow.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2005 15:02 Edited at: 27th Mar 2005 15:09
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hmm ascii characters from 0-255 lets see if that does something




 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~€?‚ƒ„…†‡ˆ‰Š‹Œ?Ž??‘’“”•–—˜™š›œ?žŸ ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬­®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ

edit test

yup a few characters disapppeared including foward slash

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Posted: 27th Mar 2005 15:32
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Yes, we know all this already, no need to resurrect a 2 month-old thread for it.


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