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SMF's unnecessary antics: Bug in "Move-topic"

Started by SMiFFER, February 17, 2018, 09:39:15 AM

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SMiFFER

Try to move a topic, when it contains special characters!

Reproduce:
Let's create a topic like: 'How "funny" this can be'
(with quotation marks for the sake of the argument!)
post+save

Next:
Try to move this topic to another board.

Here begins the problem! SMF manipulates your topic, converts " to &quot
and thus it looks broken.

Try with others, not much better...

Conclusion:
It escapes me why SMF tries to amend your subject when you only want to MOVE a topic.
The ADDITIONAL OPTION of renaming the topic is good, but that's beside the point here.

Hope this helps!
Please fix!
Quote of the day: A troll is an obstinate bloke who only hungers for your attention. If you feed him, he will puke all over you!

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

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butch2k

Tested it as well on my 2.0.15 board, it works fine.
Look's like a mod is messing it up, any installed mod related to topic management ?

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

Quote from: butch2k on February 17, 2018, 10:04:45 AM
Look's like a mod is messing it up, any installed mod related to topic management ?
Or BBC parsing, URL handling, auto embedding?
Slava
Ukraini!


"Before you allow people access to your forum, especially in an administrative position, you must be aware that that person can seriously damage your forum. Therefore, you should only allow people that you trust, implicitly, to have such access." -Douglas

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Illori

Quote from: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on February 17, 2018, 10:15:50 AM
Quote from: butch2k on February 17, 2018, 10:04:45 AM
Look's like a mod is messing it up, any installed mod related to topic management ?
Or BBC parsing, URL handling, auto embedding?

i posted about this in the team boards. if the topic you are splitting has quotes in the subject the result has the &quot in the subject. try to split a message from this one.

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

Quote from: Illori on February 17, 2018, 12:11:10 PM
Quote from: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on February 17, 2018, 10:15:50 AM
Quote from: butch2k on February 17, 2018, 10:04:45 AM
Look's like a mod is messing it up, any installed mod related to topic management ?
Or BBC parsing, URL handling, auto embedding?

i posted about this in the team boards. if the topic you are splitting has quotes in the subject the result has the &quot in the subject. try to split a message from this one.
That appears to be true yes, somewhere it seems SMF does forget to handle them correctly.
Slava
Ukraini!


"Before you allow people access to your forum, especially in an administrative position, you must be aware that that person can seriously damage your forum. Therefore, you should only allow people that you trust, implicitly, to have such access." -Douglas

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butch2k

Splitting or moving?
Original post was about moving but I could not reproduce, i'll Try splitting.

Illori

i duplicated it by splitting, i have not tried moving.

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