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May 7, 2014 at 2:44 am

Hi guys. Was hoping for some help with this. I have recently inherited a site from a previous designer and have run into some issues. If out client adds and Quotes to their ‘event meta’ it breaks our code and the data is not displayed.

Here is a printr of the event meta for a particular event that is causing issues:

<code>Array
(
    [default_payment_status] =&gt; 
    [venue_id] =&gt; 0
    [additional_attendee_reg_info] =&gt; 2
    [add_attendee_question_groups] =&gt; Array
        (
            [1] =&gt; 1
        )

    [date_submitted] =&gt; February 27, 2014
    [event_name_again] =&gt; Mentoring to strengthen teachers\&#039; career-long professional learning
    [event_short_description] =&gt; Representatives from a partnership project involving two universities, two local authorities and two clusters of primary and secondary schools will share their experiences of the impact of mentoring on teachers professional learning . The project engaged teachers with mentoring strategies to support each other in their career-long professional learning.
    [speaker_name] =&gt; Kay Livingston
    [speaker_organisation] =&gt; Glasgow University
    [is_keynote] =&gt; 0
)</code>

The following is in customfunctions.php to add the custom event fields to an event:

<code>$event_meta = ! empty( $event_meta ) ? $event_meta : ee_default_event_meta();
	$good_meta = $event_meta;
	printr( $event_meta, &#039;$event_meta  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:10px;font-weight:normal;&quot;&gt;&#039; . __FILE__ . &#039;&lt;br /&gt;line no: &#039; . __LINE__ . &#039;&lt;/span&gt;&#039;, &#039;auto&#039; );
	?&gt;

	&lt;table&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;overflow:hidden; width:0;&quot;&gt;&lt;input size=&quot;20&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;event_name_again&quot; name=&quot;emeta[]&quot; id=&quot;emeta[]&quot; style=&quot;visibility:hidden;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;td style=&quot;vertical-align:top;&quot;&gt;&lt;label for=&quot;emetad[]&quot;&gt;&lt;?php _e(&#039;Seminar Title: &#039;, &#039;event_espresso&#039;); ?&gt; &lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;td&gt;&lt;input size=&quot;20&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;&lt;?php echo $good_meta[&#039;event_name_again&#039;] ?&gt;&quot; name=&quot;emetad[]&quot; id=&quot;emetad[]&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;overflow:hidden; width:0;&quot;&gt;&lt;input size=&quot;20&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;event_short_description&quot; name=&quot;emeta[]&quot; id=&quot;emeta[]&quot; style=&quot;visibility:hidden;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;td style=&quot;vertical-align:top;&quot;&gt;&lt;label for=&quot;emetad[]&quot;&gt;&lt;?php _e(&#039;Short Description: &#039;, &#039;event_espresso&#039;); ?&gt; &lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;td&gt;&lt;textarea name=&quot;emetad[]&quot; id=&quot;emetad[]&quot; cols=&quot;30&quot; rows=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&lt;?php echo $good_meta[&#039;event_short_description&#039;] ?&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;overflow:hidden; width:0;&quot;&gt;&lt;input size=&quot;20&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;speaker_name&quot; name=&quot;emeta[]&quot; id=&quot;emeta[]&quot; style=&quot;visibility:hidden;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;td style=&quot;vertical-align:top;&quot;&gt;&lt;label for=&quot;emetad[]&quot;&gt;&lt;?php _e(&#039;Speaker Name: &#039;, &#039;event_espresso&#039;); ?&gt; &lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;td&gt;&lt;input size=&quot;20&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;&lt;?php echo $good_meta[&#039;speaker_name&#039;] ?&gt;&quot; name=&quot;emetad[]&quot; id=&quot;emetad[]&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;overflow:hidden; width:0;&quot;&gt;&lt;input size=&quot;20&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;speaker_organisation&quot; name=&quot;emeta[]&quot; id=&quot;emeta[]&quot; style=&quot;visibility:hidden;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;td style=&quot;vertical-align:top;&quot;&gt;&lt;label for=&quot;emetad[]&quot;&gt;&lt;?php _e(&#039;Speaker Organisation: &#039;, &#039;event_espresso&#039;); ?&gt; &lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;td&gt;&lt;input size=&quot;20&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;&lt;?php echo $good_meta[&#039;speaker_organisation&#039;] ?&gt;&quot; name=&quot;emetad[]&quot; id=&quot;emetad[]&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;overflow:hidden; width:0;&quot;&gt;&lt;input size=&quot;20&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;is_keynote&quot; name=&quot;emeta[]&quot; id=&quot;emeta[]&quot; style=&quot;visibility:hidden;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;td style=&quot;vertical-align:top;&quot;&gt;&lt;label for=&quot;emetad[]&quot;&gt;&lt;?php _e(&#039;Keynote Session: &#039;, &#039;event_espresso&#039;); ?&gt; &lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;td&gt;
				&lt;select name=&quot;emetad[]&quot; id=&quot;emetad[]&quot;&gt;
				&lt;option value=&quot;0&quot;&gt;No&lt;/option&gt;
				&lt;option value=&quot;1&quot; &lt;?php if($good_meta[&#039;is_keynote&#039;]){ echo &quot;selected&quot;; } ?&gt;&gt;Yes&lt;/option&gt;
				&lt;/select&gt;
			&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/table&gt;</code>

I use the following code to echo out the event meta:

<code>$event_meta = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#039;event_meta&#039;);
$event_meta = unserialize($event_meta[0]);

echo $event_meta[&#039;event_name_again&#039;];</code>

This works fine if there are no escape characters in the meta. However the unserialize() function just skips any any entries with escape characters and displays nothing.

So my question is twofold.

Can I prevent quotes being added to the event meta with some sort of validation?

Or

How do a appropriately deal with $event_meta array to handle the escape characters?

Any help would be appreciated as I have hit a brick wall.