[Plugin: Live Blogging] Twitter Problem

  • rfran1984

    (@rfran1984)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m using the Live Blogging plugin, and I’ve done this:

    On line 1354 of live-blogging.php

    $content = filter_var($post->post_content, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);

Change to
$content = filter_var($post->post_content, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);

    To make quotes and other special characters appear correctly in tweets. However, when I make a post, the Twitter post ignores any spaces I put between words, like this:

    https://twitter.com/tvlive_extra/statuses/240465072932139009

    Is there any way I can fix this? I need to use the live-blogging plugin on Monday, and don’t want any problems.

    Thanks in advance.

    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/live-blogging/

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  • Plugin Author chrisnorthwood

    (@chrisnorthwood)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Well FILTER_SANITIZE_URL strips spaces (it is used to remove characters which are invalid in a URL from a string), so that’s what you’d expect.

    You probably want to leave it as FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING but instead use html_entity_decode on $content as well, i.e.,

    $content = html_entity_decode(filter_var($post->post_content, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING));

    If that solves your issue I could look into making that default in future versions of the plugin

    Thread Starter rfran1984

    (@rfran1984)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Didn’t work I’m afraid. Twitter’s still ignoring spaces in words.

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