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Special characters in initiator.name token

richdal
Participant

@richdal

8 years, 8 months ago

Using WordPress 4.4.2 and BuddyPress 2.5.1

Wasn’t sure how to fix this. I’m running into a problem with one of the email tokens (initiator.name). If the initiator’s name has a special character like an apostrophe (e.g. O’Neil), the HTML display works fine in the message body but the encoded version of the text is appearing in the subject.

I took a look at the documentation but wasn’t seeing anything I could change other than using {{token}} or {{{token}}}. Neither versions worked on the subject text.

[{{{site.name}}}] New friendship request from {{initiator.name}}
[{{{site.name}}}] New friendship request from {{{initiator.name}}}

Is there anything I can add to my child theme’s functions.php to correct that? Didn’t know if there was away to create our own token to make an decoded version of that text.

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shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

8 years, 8 months ago
You might be able to use this filter
apply_filters( 'bp_email_set_subject', $subject, $this );
And run stripslashes on the $subject.

Something like:
```
function richdal_email_subject( $subject, $obj ) {
    $subject = stripslashes( $subject );
    return $subject;
}
add_filter( 'bp_email_set_subject', 'richdal_email_subject', 15, 2 );
```
But you shouldn’t have to, afaik.
The issue is probably just due to an over-sight.

You can open a ticket here, using the same user / pw as this forum.

Include a link to this topic.
And if you try the filter above, the results of that test.
richdal
Participant

@richdal

8 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for the recommendation. I tried adding that to the child-theme’s functions.php file but didn’t have an affect. I experimented a little by trying to append text and replace the problem text, but could only get the append to work. I opened a ticket.

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

8 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for creating the ticket. I vaguely recall handling a similar issue, but I think that was with the “From Name”, so we should be able to fix this up.

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