Ampersand in Product Name

[FarmGrrl]

Currently if I have a product with a name like "Carrot & Citrus Soap" I have to remember to use &amp; instead of the &. I think that Zencart should use the htmlspecialchars() PHP function to automatically encode and decode this, as well as < > and other such characters in product names. I saw some previous threads on this, but didn't see any real solution. Any thoughts?

[FarmGrrl]

Also, simply changing it to &amp; is not a good solution, because when I edit the product again, it has been changed back to &.

[Ajeh]

If I was searching for Lucy & Ricky ... I would search for:
Lucy & Ricky
Lucy and Ricky

But it would never occure to me to search for Lucy &amp; Ricky ...

[FarmGrrl]

I agree with you, but having an unencoded & breaks XML / HTML validation, and puts your customer's browser in "quirks mode", which means that you are no longer controlling how the page displays for them. What should happen, is that it should be stored as & in the database, but displayed as &amp; in the HTML page. Then searching would work, and displaying would work.

[Ajeh]

I don't know the best solution for you ... have to talk to the designer folks ...

But I often ponder the question ... do customers really care if your site validates vs finding the latest DVDs on Lucy & Ricky ...

[FarmGrrl]

Of course they don't. But if your site does not validate, it's not guaranteed to work in their browser, or to look how you have worked so hard to make it look. So then maybe you should just put up an order form for them to fax -- after all, that's guaranteed to work, right?

[LostSheep]

I'm trying to display the (C) and (TM) (trade mark) configuring my products in Admin. How can I do it. How and where can I do this. I guess it would need some little php code.

How to make that my site thumbnail or icon would be shown at navigation bar and tabs bar (in Firefox).

Thank you much