[wp-hackers] slashes in custom field input

[DD32]

Hah :)

Its an issue on trunk too.. And i'll make a trac ticket a little later for  
it with a patch, Looks like i've seen this bug before too..

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:17:50 +1000, Rick Beckman <rick.beckman at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 2.6.2. Sorry, shoulda specified that in my first post.
>
> In light of what day it is, I condemn myself to walk the plank.
>
>
> Yarr.
>
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> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:09 AM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
>> Ahhh.. ok yes, That makes more sense :)
>>
>> Sounds like the adding of the post meta isnt deslashing it, What are you
>> running? 2.6 or 2.7?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:02:58 +1000, Rick Beckman  
>> <rick.beckman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Glad I'm not the only one up at this hour. Here's a better rundown of  
>>> it:
>>>
>>> In a post, I add this as a custom field:
>>> This, "that," and 'the other.'
>>>
>>> After I click "Add Custom Field" and the field moves up to the list of
>>> already added fields, it appears like this:
>>> This, \"that,\" and \'the other.\'
>>>
>>> Outputting that content as a meta field in my post -- utilizing
>>> attribute_escape() to preserve the quotes -- I get this:
>>> <meta name="description" content="This, \&quot;that,\&quot; and
>>> \&#039;the other.\&#039;" />
>>>
>>> Which is fine, of course, except for the slashes which were never
>>> removed. I know I can easily strip slashes in my template file, and I
>>> can also easily remove them from the custom field after the initial
>>> adding of it.
>>>
>>> However, it just seems like they shouldn't be present at all after
>>> pressing "Add Custom Field." Subsequent edits of the custom field
>>> doesn't generate any extraneous slashes, after all.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rick Beckman
>>> http://rickbeckman.org/
>>> http://fellowship-hall.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:53 AM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Quick question:
>>>> Are you saying that the output from attribute_escape() ends up with '  
>>>> "
>>>> and & with slashes? Or that the raw output from get_post_meta()  
>>>> contains the
>>>> slashes?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:48:02 +1000, Rick Beckman  
>>>> <rick.beckman at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm attempting to use custom fields to handle post descriptions  
>>>>> instead
>>>>> of
>>>>> installing one of a thousand SEO plugins to do it, and while the  
>>>>> theme
>>>>> output mechanism was dead-simple for even a lightweight like me to  
>>>>> put
>>>>> together, I notice that whenever I add a custom field, the value  
>>>>> that is
>>>>> saved has slashes added to entities such as ", ', and &.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm already attribute_escape()ing the custom field output so that I  
>>>>> can
>>>>> use
>>>>> quotes and ampersands within it without it breaking my HTML.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems like WP should be stripping the slashes added by what I can
>>>>> only
>>>>> assume is the Ajax mechanism for first adding the field to a post.
>>>>> Subsquently editing and saving the value doesn't seem to add slashes
>>>>> anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone else noticed this?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Rick Beckman
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