Topic: & in username
Usernames containing & are displayed as & in the title and breadcrumb.
1 2008-02-21 05:06 (edited by qubertman 2008-02-21 05:07)
2 2008-02-21 05:32 (edited by whatrevolution 2008-02-21 05:34)
Re: & in username
View source and see if it is actually " & " , no quotes.
& generally isn't allowed in usernames and such, for the chance that it appears in a URL where it is a special character, etc. Though I can't speak for PunBB itself. That DOES look like the username is passing through htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars(). Maybe it is going through more than once?
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Re: & in username
The same would apply to > and <; these are the only three entities in xml I believe.
I wonder how this is handled in URL? Romanization into ?-??
Re: & in username
whatrevolution is right, the issue is data being run through htmlspecialchars twice.
qubertman: Could you tell me what files you're seeing this in so I make sure I don't miss anything? 
Re: & in username
profile.php - In the title and in the breadcrumb.
Re: & in username
Fixed
Re: & in username
A note for anyone finding this thread later (as I just did, 10 months later), an upgrade on this forum seems to have changed the opening post content and parsed the second & into &, though it won't happen with this post I'm writing now... in case it happens again (lol) we were talking about the HTML entity for & being printed as plain text.
