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This is a problem with the way FLIR handles the quote entities generated by wordpress.  Instead of using the quotation mark on the keyboard, wordpress converts them to opening and closing quotation marks... so instead of

Say "Hebbo" to Tarvuism!

You get:

Say [&]#8220;Hebbo[&]#8221; to Tarvuism!

Which converts to...

Say “Hebbo” to Tarvuism!


This causes problems with FLIR which uses PHP to decipher character entities.  A work around would be to stop WP from making this change or alternatively you could edit the generate.php file to replace these entities on the backend.  I could give you instructions if you'd like.

In generate.php you can add a line before the line:

Around line 128:

$FLIR['text'] = $FLIR['original_text'] = strip_tags(html_entity_decode_utf8($FLIR['text']));

Add:

// add more entities to the array as needed, this will replace actualy quotes with the quote character "
// the brackets are added to [&]#8220; to prevent the forum from displaying the entity
$FLIR['text'] = str_replace(array('[&]#8220;', '[&]#8221;'), array('"', '"'), $FLIR['text']);
$FLIR['text'] = $FLIR['original_text'] = strip_tags(html_entity_decode_utf8($FLIR['text']));

One more problem I noticed: the FLIR plugin automatically converts "quoted"/indented text to images, too. Usually just a big mess of distorted text in varying size. Here's an example: http://www.addictivethoughts.com/2008/1 … -the-past/ (there's quoted text above halfway down the page)

Any advice on how to stop that from happening? I like your plugin a lot and appreciate the work you've done, but I think if I can't figure this out I'll probably uninstall it until the next update or whatever (no offense), because I guess I just don't know enough on my own in terms of PHP to fix this.

I had the same issue with quotes. I do not understand PHP very well, so I had some problems making this fix also.

I didn't understand what you me you meant here:

 You need to remove the brackets around the entities...  array('[&]#8220;', '[&]#8221;')

For me this is a bracket "[" and I did not know which bracket you meant.
What I did do was take out the parenthesis "( )" and it worked. This is the line now:

 $FLIR['text'] = str_replace array('[&]#8220;', '[&]#8221;', array('"', '"'), $FLIR['text']);
(The changes on generate.php are now near line 255)
the original was: 
$FLIR['text'] = str_replace(array('[&]#8220;', '[&]#8221;'), array('"', '"'), $FLIR['text']);

see: http://kennethbsmith.com/blogwp/2008/09 … e-job-bub/
Post tile is "Nice Job Bub"
WAIT!, I see that it is not working now in Safari.
I commented out the above fix for now - Feb 22, 2009
Any suggestions?

Last edited by akamaxbuz (2009-02-22 16:51:35)

[...] as it's proper typographic practice.

Don't get me started on this ;p

The problem is that PHP's html_entity_decode doesn't really understand most numeric entities.  So you will have to intercept them, and replace them with their actual character equivilent, or straight quotes--and the typeface has to support them, of course (which most don't).

Follow the instructions above and this line will convert to straight quotes:
$FLIR['text'] = str_replace(array('[&]#8220;', '[&]#8221;'), array('"', '"'), $FLIR['text']);

Remove the brackets [ and ] from around the & (ampersand) signs and that should work.  The reason the brackets are there is because if they're not, the forum software will convert the text to the entity.

If you want to convert to curly quotes:
$FLIR['text'] = str_replace(array('[&]#8220;', '[&]#8221;'), array('“', '”'), $FLIR['text']);