Product review does not display special char

[Stevanovich]

Hello,
I am testing review about any product , i meet problem with sending special char , like < ' > transform to <&#39>
Maybe something with encoding ? 

 

I put a link to see 

Testing and result

Thanks

Regards

[benjAeby]

Hi Stevanovich,

I think I have the same issue. I noticed that it occurs only when the product description is truncated, as we can see in the attached screen copy:

 

Hope this will help to find a solution.

Kind regards

Benjamin

[bsmither]

CC618 will use the product's Short Description if it exists. If not, the product's Main Description will be used after stripping away all HTML tags.

Whichever is used, if the description needs truncating, the first action is to decode entities, such as &#34; to a quote mark. But the use of this function employs the ENT_COMPAT filter which does not convert the apostrophe - &#39.

The second action is to discard everything after the product precis limit.

The third action is to re-encode all the entities. The use of this function will see &#39 and encode the ampersand - &amp;#39;. Thus, at the browser, after decoding &amp;, we still see &#39;.

In the file /classes/catalogue.class.php, near line 218:

Find:
return htmlentities(substr(html_entity_decode($short_description, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'), 0, $product_precis), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8').'…';

Change to:
return htmlentities(substr(html_entity_decode($short_description, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'), 0, $product_precis), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8').'…';

This will be fixed in CC619.

[benjAeby]

Hi BSmither,

Thank your for your quick and detailed answer. Great fix!

Best regards

Benjamin