Back In Stock Notifications

[nagelkruid]

Hello,
I was having problem with special chars in title and the display in the bisn form at the bottom of the page. As my shop is in utf8 it shows the ?

Now i recently noticed that replacing htmlentities in tpl_product_info_display.php solves the problem like so:

$intro_text = sprintf(BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATION_TEXT_FORM_INTRO,
    //htmlentities($products_name));
    strip_tags($products_name)); 

Is it known that htmlentities doesn't cope well with utf8?
Are there drawbacks i should consider changing the code like this?

thanks,
jeroen

[conor]

Hi Jeroen,

Is it known that htmlentities doesn't cope well with utf8?

htmlentities without any parameters doesn't support UTF8. You need to upgrade toa more recent version of Ceon Back In Stock Notifications, support for UTF8 was added in April 2009!

(2.6.0 is most recent release, a slightly newer version will be out later this month).

For your reference:

htmlentities($products_name, ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET) 

..is how UTF8 is supported in the htmlentities function.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[supersnow]

(2.6.0 is most recent release, a slightly newer version will be out later this month).

I have stock by attributes will the new version have support to be able to work to show the actual attributes that come back in stock too?

[conor]

Hi,

I have stock by attributes will the new version have support to be able to work to show the actual attributes that come back in stock too?

No. Stock by attributes will NEVER be supported.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[nagelkruid]

Hi Jeroen,
(2.6.0 is most recent release, a slightly newer version will be out later this month).

For your reference:

htmlentities($products_name, ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET) 

..is how UTF8 is supported in the htmlentities function.

Ahh, thats too bad, i just downloaded and used version 2.2.4 which was the latest available in the zen-cart downloads section. Didn't realise there would be a newer version elsewhere, i'll go and find that one.

Thanks for explaining the htmlentities, i still have some minor issues with utf8, it is good to know i can use the function in this way to support the char set.

[conor]

Hi,

Ahh, thats too bad, i just downloaded and used version 2.2.4 which was the latest available in the zen-cart downloads section.

Oh dear, I didn't realise the downloads area was so out of date! That downloads area is such a pain (for developers, obviously it's handy for users)!

I'll upload the new version to it of course.

Thanks for explaining the htmlentities, i still have some minor issues with utf8, it is good to know i can use the function in this way to support the char set.

Yes, it's good to know how these things work for future use.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[nagelkruid]

cancel post , found new version, thanks!

[novastar]

I installed the mod but whenever I try to access the Catalog=>Back In Stock it takes me to the log in page with out actually ednding my session, just taking me to the page. I haven't yet installed the css and js files in the docs foldere because I don't know where they go. Where do they go?

[novastar]

I installed the mod but whenever I try to access the Catalog=>Back In Stock it takes me to the log in page with out actually ednding my session, just taking me to the page. I haven't yet installed the css and js files in the docs foldere because I don't know where they go. Where do they go?

To be more specific, I can get to the page but whenever I try to run one of the options from the dropdown list, what I described in the above post happens.