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I and any member of my gl site needs to be able to use the backslash character in articles (stories) and forum posts. But it's getting stripped out.

I don't remember having an issue with with this on my previous version but maybe I just didn't notice. In a recent article, I also couldn't use the less than and greater than signs. What I've had to do is enter in their html equiv, i.e. &nnn; which works but only if you don't try to edit the aritcle/post afterwards.

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Help. It's really creating a headache for my members that post hijackthis logs when the backslashes get stripped out of the file paths.

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what version do you run now? back slashes aren't being stripped in 1.3.10, well, in rc1 anyway.
have you tried escaping them?

I'm running 1.3.11.

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Have them use the PRE tag

It get stripped out of the pre tag as well.

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I still need a resolution to this.

Here is an example of what's happening:

http://www.antisource.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=231

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What happens if you use the code tag in stories?

Same thing as pre. This isn't a formatting issue, geeklog is removing the backslashes before saving it to the database. It also removes the less than and greater than signs. Ideally, it would convert them to their numerical codes before doing this.

Let's test this out here:

c:windowssystem32driversetchosts

See what happens?

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www.antisource.com

Add an extra backslash to escape the backslash.

Here is a\

c:\dos\run

There is an outstanding defect with preview/edit of stories with backslashes:
Defect 25

I had produced a patch for geeklog 1.3.11, it should work on that version, unfortunately subsequent changes to the source (i.e. the CVS version that will become 1.3.12 in due time) mean the patch doesn't work in CVS geeklog. You could try it, get it here

hmm ok so double-backslashing doesn't work on the forums. But I'm sure it works in the articles. (Geeklog CVS Test Article)

When I was creating the RSS for Authors script, I had to pay attention to what characters I sent to the feed - I needed to strip out the html markup in the description and convert some special characters. So I used this routine:



So if the templating system uses htmlspecialchars(), or even htmlentities(), the problem should be solved. If that still doesn't work, then run a str_replace() to convert the backslash character to it's numerical code. But I don't know where to make this change.

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Weird, on my 1.3.11, it works fine if I submit it with the code-tags (the ones with [-brackets) before and after and submit as HTML.

Okay - try it with a forum post if you have the plugin installed, and post a test Comment. I find it doesn't work with comments either. I think I remember it did work with code tags for me, but considering the nature of my site, I can't use those tags for every file path I write.

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This still needs resolved, it's a pretty serious problem I'm having on my site.

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You can do it with my javascript.

I've been fighting this same issue for a week, and found this thread. Looking at the bugtracker, this fixes the problem:

at the top of the function COM_checkHTML() in lib-common.php, add one line as so (swiped from Defect 25, noted above):


function COM_checkHTML( $str, $permissions = 'story.edit' )
{
global $_CONF;
$str = str_replace( '\\\\', '\', $str ); // HACK -- THIS IS THE ADDED LINE
$str = stripslashes($str);

This problem is driving me nuts. I'm running 1.4.0sr5-1, and have a series of stories containing a whole lot of directory names, including backslashes.

If I write the story with backslashes, they are removed upon save. ARG!

If I write the story with & #92 ; , it saves and displays properly ( had to write that with spaces in "& #92 ;" to prevent parsing). But when I edit the story, the editor converts them to backslashes (Why in the world does it do this?), and then deletes them upon save. ARG!

Somewhere in there is one too many stripslashes().

How can I change it to leave the & #92 ; in the story when editing, or simply leave backslashes in the story?