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spaceman 2004-09-06, 16:47 #1
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Subject: Attachment with apostrophe
It seems files that contain apostrophe (') once uploaded/attached, will become some_file_name\'s.kar (for example) & therefore it cannot be downloaded properly. Is there any way to prevent this? Thanks :)
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This post was edited on 2004-09-06, 16:47 by spaceman.
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Yves (Administrator) 2004-09-06, 16:51 #2
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Works for me.
Please read through this forum's top info and don't forget your current board version (I suppose 1.5 in your case), browser, server PHP version etc.
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spaceman 2004-09-06, 16:55 #3
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Oh yeah I remember I've been posted a MIDI here which has apostrophe in the Playground forum. I wonder why it doesn't work on my forum.

By the way what do u mean by this forum's top info? And does different browser affect how files are being treat when uploaded?

Thanks..
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Yves (Administrator) 2004-09-06, 17:01 #4
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I meant the stuff I wrote to the very top of the Bug report's forum and that is there to keep me from asking the same questions ever again. This is what you can mark as read... (assuming you have already read it ;))

I have no idea if uploading with another browser can change this. Microsoft e.g. is widely known for standards non-compliance, and if it works for me with Firefox and doesn't for your IE, I'll never find the issue if I'm not testing it with your browser, maybe, if that makes the difference. (You could also be using Opera, Safari, Netscape or whatever version I usually don't use.)

For the PHP version: I'm currently almost only testing with PHP5, it could be a PHP4 issue. BTW, you could check all PHP options that have "magic" or "quote" in their name. All of them should be "off". The board tries to work around as good as possible, but maybe I haven't tested it with every weird configuration yet.
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spaceman 2004-09-23, 13:27 #5
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I'm sorry but I've to bring this issue to attention again. I've tried uploaded a filename like don't_come_back.mid but it was uploaded as don\'t_come_back.mid that result in improper downloading because upon Saving, the file name would be forum (yes, without an extension) although u could add an extension manually and the file would be working as it's supposed to be.

No I don't think it's an IE issue as I managed to upload a file with apostrophe in its file name without any problem, and Saving the file works too, on this board. However about the magic quote thing, I can't seem to find out since I'm not the admin of my server. And I'm not quite sure if my webhost has PHP4 or 5, but most probably PHP4.

Thank u very much for ur support!! :)
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Yves (Administrator) 2004-09-23, 13:35 #6
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It's hard to find out what causes this. But you can provide me details of your PHP environment. Please create a .php file with this content:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
and call it from your browser. It will give you the complete settings of your PHP setup. Please give me the names and values of all settings with "magic_quotes" in it so that I can test it with your environment.
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spaceman 2004-09-23, 14:34 #7
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Directive            Local value          Master value
magic_quotes_gpc:          On               On
magic_quotes_runtime:    Off               Off
magic_quotes_sybase:     Off               Off
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spaceman 2004-09-23, 14:40 #8
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I just notice not only this, the [list ] code tag also causes the same problem where:

[list]
[*]don't didn't doesn't haven't hasn't
[/list]

[list=1]
[*]don\'t didn\'t doesn\'t haven\'t hasn\'t
[/list]

The first listing with a dot type works okay (on my board), but the second one [ list=1 ] (I haven't tested other forms ie. A/i/a/o/+) has problem while processing apostrophe, but this board doesn't have such problem, I manually added the backslash apostrophe \' to the above example listing to reflect my problem on my board...;)
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This post was edited on 2004-09-23, 14:56 by spaceman.
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Yves (Administrator) 2004-09-23, 15:02 #9
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The list issue has been fixed. But this hasn't been documented as it seems.
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spaceman 2004-09-23, 15:05 #10
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Quote by Yves:
The list issue has been fixed. But this hasn't been documented as it seems.

Can I have a patch for this on v1.5.1? Or otherwise tell me which codes should be modified to fix it. Thanks :-)  :-)  :heart:
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Yves (Administrator) 2004-09-23, 15:12 #11
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abbc.cfg.php:471
replace the similar line here with the new one: (the stripslashes() call is new - I hope this was the change...)
  1. 'htmlcont1'  => "stripslashes(\"\$2\").",

It seems I could find the problem with quotes in filenames with magic_quotes_gpc = on. Could you please test the following code change for you: (common.lib.php:76, add this as the 4th 'while' loop)
  1.     while (list ($key, $value) = each ($_FILES))
  2.     {
  3.         $_FILES[$key]['name'] = str_replace('\\\'', '\'', $_FILES[$key]['name']);
  4.         $_FILES[$key]['name'] = str_replace('\\"', '"', $_FILES[$key]['name']);
  5.         $_FILES[$key]['name'] = str_replace('\\\\', '\\', $_FILES[$key]['name']);
  6.     }
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spaceman 2004-09-23, 15:18 #12
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Ok I'll try it now, btw, where is line 471 in abbs.cfg.php?? I'm using Wordpad so how could I find that line? (not counting manually...)
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Yves (Administrator) 2004-09-23, 15:19 #13
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OMG. Please use Notepad at least and enable the status line... It'll tell you the line number.
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spaceman 2004-09-23, 15:31 #14
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Ok..!!! The file name with apostrophe issue has been fixed.

But abbc.cfg.php:471 is not the case, the problem still exists!
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Yves (Administrator) 2004-09-23, 15:34 #15
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Well, I just checked it here and the line was previously:
  1. 'htmlcont1'  => "\"\$2\".",
and should now be:
  1. 'htmlcont1'  => "stripslashes(\"\$2\").",
and that has resolved the bug.
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