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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.

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=***

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.

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.

Thanks for the tip.

.:SOULLESS:. wrote: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()).

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