281076 - backslashes from database displayed in extension description

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect)

Description

[Patrick Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111 Firefox/1.0+

Any extension description containing an apostrophe (e.g. Google Pagerank Status,
Knowledge Fractal, etc.) displays a backslash before the apostrophe (e.g.
"...your browser\'s status bar.").  Backslashes should be removed before display
using a PHP function such as stripslashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Patrick Lee]

After further review, I noticed that most apostrophes are not backslashed (e.g.
FastDic, Farkit, Hotmail Tabs, JavaScript Debugger, etc.).  The affected
descriptions (e.g. Google Pagerank Status) may have triple backslashes in the
database.  Running stripslashes on \\\' would result in \' being displayed. 
Actual bug is therefore probably in the submission form component.

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

Google Pagerank Status, Knowledge Fractal, and SmartSearch have been fixed.  It
was only a single backslash.

Comment 3

[alanjstr]

You may need to hold down shift when you reload to force the squid cache to refresh.