I seem to have broken Hikashop!

Hi,

I have a problem with Hikashop that I cant fix. When I edit a PHP in views or try to modify the language file I get a whole lot of \ appearing. They appear in product files after apostrophes and in PHP before quote marks. Every time I save I get more. I then have to reload my en-GB file. The only way I can edit files is by copying them out to an external editor and then uploading them again..

Obviously I cant do that every time I load a product!

I have one live example on my website - thebooktrader.co.nz/index.php/thriller/category/78-shaun-hutson if you want to have a look.

Can you help?

Hi,

I'll need more informations like what hikashop's files did you changed and can you :
- Active the joomla debug mode ("Administration->Global configuration->System->Debug System/Language")
- Set the "error reporting" option of the joomla configuration to "maximum"
- Try it again and tell me if it display an error message.

did that and edited the file thebooktrader.co.nz/index.php/thriller/category/78-shaun-hutson
and took out all the \ and pasted a clean copy back in.

It worked same as before:
-I have \ before every apostrophe and quote.
- no error message
- just said "successfully saved"

Hi ,
the things I have changed are:
- checkout_terms.php
- product_listing_img_title.php
- product_listing_title.php
- English language was modified also

The problem started after I had modified the English language file which I did through frontend (system / configuration / languages change icon.)
after I had modified it I got a msg that said my language file was out of date and I needed to download the latest file from the server. There was a link to download beside the message and so I clicked on it and the download seemed to happen. But the download showed \ beside every quotation mark in the language file and the website was riddled with them everywhere. I went to the over ride file and found it filled with forward slash marks. I deleted the contents of the over ride file but it kept getting worse. I ended up reloading my en.gb directory via ftp. this fixed the major problem but it keeps reoccurring in articles with apostrophes as you can see.

I hope this helps

Cheers

Hi Nicholas,
thanks for that. I cannot find out how to turn off the magic quotes option.

Do I have to create a php.ini file to do this or is there a file somewhere I need to edit.

Cheers

Hi,

I think that you'll find your answer there regarding your magic quotes problem.