Hi Eliot--
I'm going to continue to post here, if that's OK, because I want to discuss the meaning of this code a little bit before using it. If that's not OK, I'm happy to switch to a different Forum (Mod or Perl) to complete the discussion.
From my study of Perl, which I'm obviously just beginning, what I think you're proposing here is a character substitution of nothing for ` (essentially deleting the `) across all of the data coming from the database and going to these particular Web pages (Add a Resource and Error Adding Resource) as built by their corresponding templates (hope I'm right on that--feel free to straighten me out if I'm off base).
Is the backtick (`) the correct character for the key combination of CTRL+' (that's my representation of the user holding down the CONTROL key and simultaneously pressing the apostrophe key)? The reason I ask is because the key combination of CTRL+' seems to produce no visible character, which is the crux of the problem. Most of my users are typing their lengthy entries in a word processor first (for spell and grammar checking and because the info is easier to view for editing) and then copying and pasting into the fields on the form.
Since the user can't see the character, then they don't know it's there. When no character appears on the screen when they type the CTRL+', then the user adds a SHIFT+' (which means that a quotation mark " is produced) and they go on their way thinking everything is OK. OK, of course, until their entry is viewed on the Web page and everything in that field after the hidden CTRL+' character fails to appear. In reality, the hidden CTRL+' character and the " character are both there.
I'm perseverating on this because half of the users to my newly launched Links 2.0 Web site have experienced this problem. Administratively, I can catch these problems and edit them out as I validate, but I'm trying to reduce the adminstrative overhead.
I'm also wondering, by the way, if I should add this code to the subroutines site_html_modify_form and site_html_modify_failure to make sure the same thing isn't happening when the user attempts to modify an exising resource.
Thanks for the help!
cosmic
[This message has been edited by cosmic (edited April 21, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by cosmic (edited April 21, 2000).]
I'm going to continue to post here, if that's OK, because I want to discuss the meaning of this code a little bit before using it. If that's not OK, I'm happy to switch to a different Forum (Mod or Perl) to complete the discussion.
From my study of Perl, which I'm obviously just beginning, what I think you're proposing here is a character substitution of nothing for ` (essentially deleting the `) across all of the data coming from the database and going to these particular Web pages (Add a Resource and Error Adding Resource) as built by their corresponding templates (hope I'm right on that--feel free to straighten me out if I'm off base).
Is the backtick (`) the correct character for the key combination of CTRL+' (that's my representation of the user holding down the CONTROL key and simultaneously pressing the apostrophe key)? The reason I ask is because the key combination of CTRL+' seems to produce no visible character, which is the crux of the problem. Most of my users are typing their lengthy entries in a word processor first (for spell and grammar checking and because the info is easier to view for editing) and then copying and pasting into the fields on the form.
Since the user can't see the character, then they don't know it's there. When no character appears on the screen when they type the CTRL+', then the user adds a SHIFT+' (which means that a quotation mark " is produced) and they go on their way thinking everything is OK. OK, of course, until their entry is viewed on the Web page and everything in that field after the hidden CTRL+' character fails to appear. In reality, the hidden CTRL+' character and the " character are both there.
I'm perseverating on this because half of the users to my newly launched Links 2.0 Web site have experienced this problem. Administratively, I can catch these problems and edit them out as I validate, but I'm trying to reduce the adminstrative overhead.
I'm also wondering, by the way, if I should add this code to the subroutines site_html_modify_form and site_html_modify_failure to make sure the same thing isn't happening when the user attempts to modify an exising resource.
Thanks for the help!
cosmic
[This message has been edited by cosmic (edited April 21, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by cosmic (edited April 21, 2000).]
