Title with special chars '<' and '>' gets truncated

Christian Roth · Post by **Christian Roth** » Fri 31. Mar 2006, 18:42

Hello,

I have an article title that should read "Get <online/>". Entering this and saving it, the "<online/>" part gets truncated.

When I try to circumvent the issue (not letting it look like a tag) and write "Get <online/>", it is not truncated, but the final result in the rendered web page is now (a visual) "Get <online/>" as well, i.e. my quoting has been quoted by phpwcms as well so that the text shows verbatim as entered in the article title field.

How do I have to enter an article title of "Get <online/>" so that it neither gets truncated nor shows in quoted text from at rendering time?

Regards, Christian.

Post by **update** » Fri 31. Mar 2006, 20:38

Hi
I just tried it myself - it really isn't working, but:
I also tried something like

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{GT:red_head-big2}Get{/GT}{GT:blue_head-big2}<online/>{/GT}

and this is working - graphical solution and not really what you want...?

Greetings
claus

Post by **update** » Fri 31. Mar 2006, 20:58

Aaah,
you also can do it with unicode

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Get <online/>

and this will be displayed in the front end.
But you should never open this page again in the backend: phpwcms is rewriting these into Get<online/>and saving the page lets your efforts vanish in the haze...
even this board here is rewriting the unicode, so here it is again: Get & # 60 ; online / & # 62 ;

Christian Roth · Post by **Christian Roth** » Fri 31. Mar 2006, 23:30

Thanks for the one-time workaround - yes, I did not try character references (which is what you mean by Unicode, I think).

I know that correct quoting and unquoting (and this in matching pairs) can be a nightmare, but this then seems to be a bug to me. I'll see if I can find some solution by modifying the source code.

Thanks for trying (and also the GT solution - I'll try that later...)

Regards, Christian.

DeXXus · Post by **DeXXus** » Sat 1. Apr 2006, 06:35

If you can "compromise", these all work:

Get < online />
Get < online/ >
Get < online/>

Top one is ~close~

This gets the same result:

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[PHP]echo "Get < online />";[/PHP]

Problem w/both methods is certain special characters cannot be followed immediately by another character.

Maybe being disallowed to avoid conflict (confusion?) as it relates to HTML tag conventions, WYSIWYG editors, etc. -and/or- maybe other valid reasons.