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[agnews Friend agnewsJoin date: February 2013Posts: 9Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#185370

Again, a problem when trying to “re-create” the template as in the demo. When entering as plain HTML the code

<div class=”social”><a class=”ico-social ico-facebooks” href=”#” title=”Facebook”><span>Facebook</span></a><a class=”ico-social ico-twitters” href=”#” title=”Twitter”><span>Twitter</span></a><a class=”ico-social ico-rss” href=”#” title=”RSS”><span>RSS</span></a></div>

…. and pressing save.

If you enter the module’s custom content AFTER the same, the code you get is:

<div class=”social”><a class=”ico-social ico-facebooks” href=”#” title=”Facebook”><span>Facebook</span></a><a class=”ico-social ico-twitters” href=”#” title=”Twitter”><span>Twitter</span></a><a class=”ico-social ico-rss” href=”#” title=”RSS”><span>RSS</span></a></div>

Pay attention to all the black slashes added. Finally, the end result, is as in the screenshot below.

Last, but not least, if I add the actual Facebook URL for the site, and click on the link, i’m not being driven to the facebook actual URL BUT in the a url like this http://www.mydomain.com/“http://www.facebook.com/blahblah….. which of course is not valid.

Anyone having answers on this one? The same problem appears to be happening on the footer’s social buttons.

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[agnews Friend agnewsJoin date: February 2013Posts: 9Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#484850

This problem is fixed. For future use if anybody has the same problem, be informed that is caused by the Magic Quotes being turned on. Either de-activate it on the whole hosting package, or place a php.ini file inside the administrator folder with the following code:

; Magic quotes
;

; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = Off

; Magic quotes for runtime-generated data, e.g. data from SQL, from exec(), etc.
magic_quotes_runtime = Off

; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ' with '' instead of ').
magic_quotes_sybase = Off

When this is done both the appearance is fixed and links are working properly.

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#484851

Hi agnews,

You’re right. The problem comes from that Magic Quotes in Joomla 3.0, all apostrophe ‘ and quotation ” characters seem to be escaped by slashes / for text fields and textarea fields.

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