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TXP adding random ampersands in custom fields.
Very bizarre.
I’m using 4.4.1 and a custom field to hold a location for Google maps. An example of the custom field value:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Chaucer+Barn,+Holt+Road,+Gresham&aq=0&oq=Chaucer+barn&sll=52.634369,1.362532&sspn=0.011929,0.026221&ie=UTF8&hq=Chaucer+Barn,+Holt+Road,+Gresham&hnear=&radius=15000&t=m&ll=52.913664,1.208496&spn=0.113866,0.284615&z=12&iwloc=A&output=embedWhen I pull that into the page, all of these in the above code:
&Turn into this:
&Which obviously breaks Google maps integration.
Help would be very much appreciated, I can’t launch a new section until I get this working.
Thanks,
Ross
Last edited by rossharvey (2012-01-30 19:48:38)
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#2 2012-01-30 19:53:42
- els
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Re: TXP adding random ampersands in custom fields.
Try escape="" in the custom_field tag.
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Re: TXP adding random ampersands in custom fields.
Els wrote:
Try
escape=""in the custom_field tag.
I love you els. Thanks.
Brought up another error – it’s being truncated. Any way to lengthen the custom field character limit?
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#4 2012-01-30 20:04:23
- els
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Re: TXP adding random ampersands in custom fields.
Yes, but you need to change the field type in the database (using phpMyAdmin). For custom fields it’s VARCHAR, you can change it to TEXT for instance.
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Re: TXP adding random ampersands in custom fields.
Els wrote:
Yes, but you need to change the field type in the database (using phpMyAdmin). For custom fields it’s VARCHAR, you can change it to TEXT for instance.
Awesome – thank you very (very!) much :¬)
Last edited by rossharvey (2012-01-30 20:13:01)
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