I exported and imported my content/articles from 1.0.12 to 1.5.7, and it appears the the underscore "_" character is being converted improperly causing broken links to content.

The 1.0.12 is latin1_swedish to 1.5.7 if utf8, is this the cause and is there an easy fix?

I have found related issues on this forum, but nothing that exactly helps this problem.

Thank you

JR

Hi JR

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I exported and imported my content/articles from 1.0.12 to 1.5.7, and it appears the the underscore "_" character is being converted improperly causing broken links to content.

Basically underscores are being converted to the incorrect numeric equivalent.

In the 1.0.12 site "Export Content 1.7.0" go to:
/administrator/components/com_export_content/convert_img.php

On line 28 you will see:

Code:

function numeric_html($text){ .......An array of conversion........... '_' => '& # 717;', }

If you remove the above from the array '_' => '& # 717;', And then recompile you should be good to go. Note: It may look a bit different here as the forums don't display code very well. Please let me know how you get on. If you are still having problems I will put a patch together.

That worked out just fine. Thank you.

I had a little permission problem trying to over write the file once I deleted the suggested code, but I got though it. I ended up uninstalling export-content from joomla 1.0.12, unzipped your package, changed the file convert_img.php, re-zipped and then reinstalled.

I had tried migrator and com_mtwmigrator and both had unworkable problems. Export_content is great app. Thank you.

JR

Hi JR

QUOTE:
I had a little permission problem trying to over write the file once I deleted the suggested code, but I got though it. I ended up uninstalling export-content from joomla 1.0.12, unzipped your package, changed the file convert_img.php, re-zipped and then reinstalled.

This is on the todo list for the next release of Export Content.

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I had tried migrator and com_mtwmigrator and both had unworkable problems. Export_content is great app. Thank you.

Glad to help if you have anymore problems please let me know.