Issue:Problem with category containing a single quote character

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Description: SQL error when using two categories, one containing a single quote character
Extension / Version: DPL   /   1.7.9
Type / Status: Bug   /   open

Problem

I use DPL to list all pages that are in two categories, one is "Besoin" (Yes, I'm French) and the other one is the page name.

So I use the option "category=Besoin&{{PAGENAME}}"

When the page name contains a single quote character ', I get an SQL error. The SQL query seems to have 3 different categories : Besoin, the page name to the single quote character and an empty name.

I looked at DynamicPageList2.php, and found a way to solve my problem.

In the section of FILTER PARAMETERS, case category, $sArg contains the value of the option category. But in the case of a page name with a single quote, this character is changed into "& #39;" (with no space between & and #, I added it to bypass HTML interpretation). And the character & is interpreted later as a separator between diferent category names, which is not what is expected...

I corrected the problem in a pragmatic but not really efficient way : I added the line

$sArg = str_replace("& #39;","'",$sArg); (with no space between & and #)

before the line if (strpos($sArg,'&')!==false) {

With this modification (I can't really call it a correction), the dpl query works.

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