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[jcsanjurjo Friend jcsanjurjoJoin date: May 2012Posts: 116Downloads:0Uploads:46 Thanks: 26 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#183546

Hi, I’m having problems with the JA Twitter module when showing some special characters in the frontend

Originally the tweet was “… <— Blog …” and what is shown in the frontend by JA Twitter is “… <— Blog …”

Do you know how to solve that?

Thanks in advance, and happy 2013

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#477985

The first “research/learning tool” I like to suggest in situations like this is to utilize JA’s DEMO BUILDER as tool to cross-reference the settings from the demo version (with all demo modules/functions assumedly working as they should) against your own settings – to make sure you have things configured correctly.

(not to suggest that you don’t … but just in case). 😎

[jcsanjurjo Friend jcsanjurjoJoin date: May 2012Posts: 116Downloads:0Uploads:46 Thanks: 26 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#478278

Hi @tomc, I have been trying the JA Twitter module behaviour in JA Demo Builder, and is exactly the same than in my site. The char < (less than) in a tweet is shown by JA Twitter on the frontend as <

Please could you or someone have a look on this ??

Thanks in advance and my best whishes for 2013

[Saguaros Moderator SaguarosJoin date: September 2014Posts: 31405Downloads:237Uploads:471 Thanks: 845 Thanked: 5346 times in 4964 posts]

#478421

You can PM me an admin account with url of site you’re working on, I shall check directly on your site since I cann’t see the same error in my local

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#478780

Hi @saguaros, I sent some days ago via PM the credentials of my test site. Could you had a look on this issue?

Thanks in advance

[Saguaros Moderator SaguarosJoin date: September 2014Posts: 31405Downloads:237Uploads:471 Thanks: 845 Thanked: 5346 times in 4964 posts]

#478859

Hi Joan,

You can try this way:

– Open file: modulesmod_jatwitterhelper.php

– There will be a function:

[PHP]
function convert($description)
{
$description = preg_replace(‘#(^|[n ])@([^ “tnr<]*)#ise’, “‘\1<a href=”http://www.twitter.com/\2″ >@\2</a>'”, $description);
$description = preg_replace(‘#(^|[n ])([w]+?://[w]+[^ “nrt<]*)#ise’, “‘\1<a href=”\2″ >\2</a>'”, $description);
$description = preg_replace(‘#(^|[n ])((www|ftp).[^ “tnr<]*)#ise’, “‘\1<a href=”http://\2″ >\2</a>'”, $description);
$description = preg_replace(‘#(^|[n ])#([^ “tnr<:]*)#ise’, “‘\1<a target=”_blank” href=”http://twitter.com/search?q=#\2″ >\2</a>'”, $description);
$description = str_replace(‘&’, ‘&’, $description);
$description = str_replace(‘&’, ‘&’, $description);
return $description;
}
[/PHP]

You can replace with:
[PHP]
function convert($description)
{

$description = preg_replace(‘#(^|[n ])@([^ “tnr<]*)#ise’, “‘\1<a href=”http://www.twitter.com/\2″ >@\2</a>'”, $description);
$description = preg_replace(‘#(^|[n ])([w]+?://[w]+[^ “nrt<]*)#ise’, “‘\1<a href=”\2″ >\2</a>'”, $description);
$description = preg_replace(‘#(^|[n ])((www|ftp).[^ “tnr<]*)#ise’, “‘\1<a href=”http://\2″ >\2</a>'”, $description);
$description = preg_replace(‘#(^|[n ])#([^ “tnr<:]*)#ise’, “‘\1<a target=”_blank” href=”http://twitter.com/search?q=#\2″ >\2</a>'”, $description);
htmlspecialchars_decode($description);
return $description;
}
[/PHP]

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#479236

Great @saguaros. Solved!

Thank you

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#479379

You’re welcome.

Best Regards

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