alliance messaging

[Solus]

messaging my alliance is a little aggrevating now. for some odd reason, something alters my post between me and the alliance. ' mark is changed to \' (yes, both the slash and the quote mark). originally when the 2CO made messages i thought it might have been a typo. but i just notced it now for my own post.

also when posting a link to a page on my alliance forum where it comes to the part of the URL "...viewtopic.php?f=**&t=***" (*=insert numeric digit here) it changes it to "...viewtopic.php?f=** and t=***"

no idea why.

my apologies if this topic exists already, im at college now so i dont have much time to search thru threads.

[Solus]

an example for reference. (numbers and content edited to ensure security of the alliance)

Hi again all.

please post in the thread located below *removed* and we\'ll *removed* bix\'s *removed*

http://tdw.herebegames.com/viewtopic.php?f=** and t=***

originally, the following were entered as:
we\'ll -> we'll
bix\'s -> bix's
php?f=** and t=*** -> php?f=**&t=***

[Clarkey]

Both of these have been happening ever since messaging was introduced.

The ' thing isn't annoying really, however the link issue is especially when you are trying to direct people to a specific thread on these forums.

[Tacet]

I don't have any suggestions as to the link issue, but I use ` instead of ' :
` - above <TAB>, next to <1> on my keyboard. It doesn't look good, but it looks better than \'

I.e.:
PM`s doesn`t allow proper punctuation.

rather than

PM\'s doesn\'t allow proper punctuation.

[Clarkey]

Thanks for the tip.

[Harlequin]

messaging my alliance is a little aggrevating now. for some odd reason, something alters my post between me and the alliance. ' mark is changed to \' (yes, both the slash and the quote mark). originally when the 2CO made messages i thought it might have been a typo. but i just notced it now for my own post.

also when posting a link to a page on my alliance forum where it comes to the part of the URL "...viewtopic.php?f=**&t=***" (*=insert numeric digit here) it changes it to "...viewtopic.php?f=** and t=***"

no idea why.

my apologies if this topic exists already, im at college now so i dont have much time to search thru threads.

The \' issue is due to either mysql_escape_string() or addslashes() being used on the way in to the database to prevent SQL injections intended to hack the database. This escaped data is then output directly instead of being passed through a correction function (stripslashes()).

[Solus]

k thanks all. at least i know whats going on now. as i said earlier, i assumed it was a typo by my old leaders. but taking a position in leadership recently i discovered it.... >.< well.... stumbled across it rather.

thanks