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Scott Prath
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September 12, 2013 at 8:21 am
This is a continuation of the following closed topic:
https://eventespresso.com/topic/cannot-save-promo-code-settings-on-events/
After further research, it appears that we are unable to save URLs in the Event Meta values due to the the colon character: ‘:’ (for example: http://www.link.com)
It looks like these values are passed in the following manner to the server during the Event update process:
emeta[]:registration_link
emetad[]:http://www.link.com
I’m guessing that the : in the URL is being escaped properly and interpreted as the end of the key. This results in an incomplete save/update and a 404 error.
However, if I escape the value as follows, the Event saves properly: http://www.link.com
Do you have any suggestions on how to programmatically address this?
Thank you.
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Sidney Harrell
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September 12, 2013 at 9:28 pm
I used the “live http headers” add on for firefox, and what the browser sends is
&emeta%5B%5D=url&emetad%5B%5D=http%3A%2F%2Flink.com
In the database I then see it as (serialized data):
s:3:"url";s:15:"http://link.com";
It is processed in includes/event-management/update_event.php on line 310:
foreach ($_REQUEST['emeta'] as $k => $v) {
$event_meta[$v] = sanitize_text_field($_REQUEST['emetad'][$k]);
}
You could experiment with it there, comment out those lines, etc, to narrow down the cause. I didn’t have any problems saving a url on my test setup, so it may be something different in your setup. You aren’t on a Windows server, are you?
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Sidney Harrell
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September 12, 2013 at 9:31 pm
The forum software didn’t display the serialized data correctly. Let me try plaintext instead:
Edit: no, it sticks on the nofollow tag. It is right in the DB, though.
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