Issue:Categorymatch=with apostrophe

Description:	categorymatch desn't find cats with '
Extension / Version:	DPL   /   1.7.6+ (at least)
Type / Status:	Bug   /   closed

Problem

• Muha Test 2

{{#dpl:
|debug=3
|categorymatch=Test'd funk
}}

This doesn't find Muha Test 2. While category= does.

• Muha Test 2

{{#dpl:
|category=Test'd funk
}}

Another one
.

• Muha Test

{{#dpl:
|debug=3
|categorymatch=Cat d'Test
}}

Reply

The problem is not the apostrophe but the space char. Replace it by an underscore! I will add a bugfix which automatically replaces spaces by underscores in catgeorymatch ...

categorymatch=%Test'd funk%:

• Muha Test 2

Gero 06:41, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

I know the underscore problem and it doesn't help. See (cl0.cl_to LIKE '%\'d_%') this is what causes me problems. This is the problem I have. I use a template on all cats that check the for images used on category={{PAGENAME}}. This works fine for all cats I've checked so far just not for "Café d'Anvers". But it would work if I use "category=Café d'Anvers" directly. Do you a workaround to make it work for all kind of cat names using {{PAGENAME}}? --Subfader 12:12, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Resolved in DPL 1.8.7.

Mediawiki expands special chars within PAGENAME to html entities and ther & misleads tDPL to take the & as an AND operator.

I added a statement to decode html entities and now it seems to work as expected. Gero 16:12, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Oh great. I was waiting for an update. You rock. --Subfader 18:51, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Is there a workaround to use pagename in an older version and to replace the ' and & with e.g. some regex? I can't upgrade onthe server because of the non working totalpages. --Subfader 21:53, 2 August 2009 (UTC)