If Reference pre-set text has a quotation mark ("), Amount field disappears

  • Resolved Larry Daniele

    (@larrydaniele)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    I’m creating a simple form with two fields: Reference and Amount. When I set the Reference pre-set text to the string:

    Invoice # or other description of service (e.g. “Website Downpayment”)

    Then the Amount field does not appear on the form. It appears that the quote character (“) is what is causing the problem. Perhaps this needs to be escaped somehow when saved.

    Also, the same problem occurs even if I switch to using a single quote (‘):

    Invoice # or other description of service (e.g. ‘Website Downpayment’)

    Using a character entity such as ‘"’ does not help either. Any work-around to this issue would be appreciated. Thanks!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/quick-paypal-payments/

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  • Hi Larry. This should work, there is no reason why you can’t add quote marks as it’s just a string. Have you tried putting the description in the ‘other information’ field and dragging this up to above the reference field? Or using \”Words\” to delimit the quotes.

    Larry,

    When I built the plugin I didn’t really know what I was doing. If you want a combined reference and amount list the separator is a semi-colon. That works fine. But if you want quotes and apostrophes they get sanitised into html identities which use semicolons.

    I will work on a fix for this. If you contact me via the plugin website I will send you and update to test.

    Fixed it.

    Demo here: https://testblog.co.uk/paypal/

    Download the update here: https://quick-plugins.com/quick-paypal-payments/qpp-update/

    Thread Starter Larry Daniele

    (@larrydaniele)

    This is still a problem for me using QPP 4.2 and WP 4.5. The form I’m using is at https://www.holycowonlinemarketing.com/contact-us/payments/. Currently, it has two fields. If I change the reference label for the first field from:

    Invoice # or other description of service (e.g. Website Downpayment)

    to:

    Invoice # or other description of service (e.g. “Website Downpayment”)

    Then the second field still disappears.

    I shall investigate further.

    A bit busy this week (doing things to earn a living) but if I have some free time I will do some debugging for you.

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