Two things I'd like to see

[jMcQuarrie]

Hi Sara,

I have two requests (feel free to ignore them though):

1) Could you put a link at the bottom of each thread back to the Forum homepage? I know there is one at the top, and there is a "top" link at the bottom, but it's not quite the same (fussy, I know).

2) In the member's RSS feed in each signature is there any way of making punctuation appear correctly? No biggy, I just use a lot of apostrophes in my post titles (something I probably shouldn't do) and they all come out as question marks.

Only minor things, and if they don't fit with your plans, or are not high priorities compared with other work you're doing, not worry about them.

[ses5909]

Thanks for the suggestions James. These are actually things I would like to do just forget about them or when I think of them, I am doing something else. I need to write them down and schedule a time to do them. I agree though, both are good things to do.

[SarahG]

Actually, I'd like to know how no 2 is done as I have the same problem reading RSS feeds in. It's as if the parser doesn't output it correctly.

[ses5909]

What RSS parser are you using Sarah?

[SarahG]

I use magpie and then run all input via the mysql_real_escape_string_function. I've not actually checked to see at which point the character entity is lost, whether it's the parser or the function. But I wouldn't have thought it'd be the function.

[jMcQuarrie]

Get you two getting all technical on me!!! ;)

[SarahG]

Sorry James, I've turned your request thread into a technical one! :blush:

[jMcQuarrie]

Sorry James, I've turned your request thread into a technical one! :blush:

No worries, I have to admit to being able to follow what you're talking about. I pretend to not be technical...

[Bob!]

I like the first one, a link to the forum home on the thread pages would be handy. Down next to the New posts one I'd like :p

[ses5909]

#1 is done and new posts is now there too Bob!

[Bob!]

Yeah! Now I'm happy. Also good thinking adding the nav to the bottom, I was just thinking of a link to the home page but that makes more sense :)

[Jessi]

I never would've noticed number one. I'm all about using my keyboard to do things instead of my mouse to click on things, so I always just hit backspace to get back the "new posts" screen and then back once more if I want the homepage for whatever reason. Good to see it was taken care of so quickly, though!

As for the issue with the RSS feeder, it's actually responsible for me taking notice of my own post titles and properly coding (or wording) them to show correctly in feeds. Sure, it'd be nice to see it fixed so that the forums automatically take care of it, but I'm glad it wasn't to begin with, hehe.

[ses5909]

Well I am making SOME progress....

James post title is now showing up as: Online shopping. What’s your experience? (http://www.jmcquarrie.co.uk/2007/11/08/online-shopping-whats-your-experience/)

which is how it is displayed when you submit something to SU as well. Some more hacking is needed :-?

[ses5909]

And now #2 is done!

Online shopping. What’s your experience? (http://www.jmcquarrie.co.uk/2007/11/08/online-shopping-whats-your-experience/)

\:D/

[SarahG]

Ooo what did you change?

[ses5909]

Before you require the magpie rss you need to add this line:

define('MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING', 'UTF-8');

and then for your output change it to

$blogTitle = htmlentities($item['title'], ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");

using your variables accordingly of course.

[jMcQuarrie]

:bigsmile: Thanks Sara.

God, I wish I got such fast responses like this when I raise "change requests" with some of our vendors at work...

[SarahG]

Thank you muchly for the code :) I'll get it put in place today :D

[ses5909]

Ok good. I hope it works for you!

And don't get too excited James...while I have good intentions (most of the time) I regularly forget to do things I need to do. I wish I could be as timely with the requests all the time!

[Jessi]

Wow. Good job!

[DavidJohnson]

Hi Sara,

I have two requests (feel free to ignore them though):

1) Could you put a link at the bottom of each thread back to the Forum homepage? I know there is one at the top, and there is a "top" link at the bottom, but it's not quite the same (fussy, I know).

2) In the member's RSS feed in each signature is there any way of making punctuation appear correctly? No biggy, I just use a lot of apostrophes in my post titles (something I probably shouldn't do) and they all come out as question marks.

Only minor things, and if they don't fit with your plans, or are not high priorities compared with other work you're doing, not worry about them.

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