ampersands in URLs

[rstevenson]

Hi,

About the only thing that throws warnings when I validate my Zen Cart pages are the ampersands in the URLs of any links on the page. You know, where the link address is like...

http://www.mysite.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=37

That red ampersand causes an error which cascades into subsequent arrors. It should be written out as &

The w3.org site has a nice article about this and how to fix it, but I need advice on implementing it within Zen Cart. They suggest starting the php script with this...

<?php ini_set('arg_separator.output','&amp;'); ?>

Could one of the experts tell me how to do that within Zen Cart?

TIA

Rob

[Merlinpa1969]

This should already be happening in stock ZC

[yellow1912]

Not really, at least for the categories' names.

[crazycucumber]

Just installed latest zen cart to do a new site , and ampersands still appear in the URL , Therefore you can never pass the w3c HTML check,

If someone has this rewrite working can they let us know how.

[rstevenson]

This should already be happening in stock ZC

Well, the URL I posted above is an actual one (except for the domain name of course) so it's not working right on my sites. Drop in for a visit and see.

Are there other issues that can cause this? Maybe server settings? Other mods? Phase of the moon? Temperature of Kim's coffee?

Rob

[Kim]

Rob -

Which site(s) are giving you a problem?

[rstevenson]

Both of mine - links below.

For example, validating the main page of the retail site yields...

Line 131, Column 75: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "cPath".

…ore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=80_84&products_id=215"><img src="i

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An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no reference by that name defined. Often this is caused by misspelling the reference name, unencoded ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon (;). The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in "Ampersands in URLs". ... etc.

Rob

[Kim]

Rob -

The errors do not appear to be caused by content generated by Zen Cart, but rather by links that have been added - Just replace the & with &amp; in all URLs you have added.

Note: They may have to re-done if you edit the content after your initial customization.