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#1 2021-12-15 07:10:45

Kjeld

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From: Tokyo, Japan

Registered: 2005-02-05

Posts: 453

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Space in custom fields

I use values from custom fields in urls. Many of the values contain spaces. For example “Mount Fuji”.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t validate:

Bad value https://www.oldphotosjapan.com/photos/?location=Mount Fuji for attribute href on element a: Illegal character in query: space is not allowed.

I also use these values as regular text, so can not add a hyphen or %20… Besides, it would be impossible to make sure that all potential users add that to the values.

Any ideas for fixing this?

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• Old Photos of Japan – Japan in the 1850s~1960s (100% txp)
• MeijiShowa – Stock photos of Japan in the 1850s~1960s (100% txp)
• JapaneseStreets.com – Japanese street fashion (mostly txp)

#2 2021-12-15 07:41:33

etc

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Re: Space in custom fields

You can try escape="url":

<txp:custom_field name="my_cf" escape="url" />

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#3 2021-12-15 10:04:25

Kjeld

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From: Tokyo, Japan

Registered: 2005-02-05

Posts: 453

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Re: Space in custom fields

etc wrote #332227:

You can try escape="url":

<txp:custom_field name="my_cf" escape="url" />...

Thanks. That works perfectly!

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• Old Photos of Japan – Japan in the 1850s~1960s (100% txp)
• MeijiShowa – Stock photos of Japan in the 1850s~1960s (100% txp)
• JapaneseStreets.com – Japanese street fashion (mostly txp)