Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Fix the weird characters/symbols in posts.

This mod will allow you to fix the weird characters/symbols that appear at your forum when you move hosts and/or reatore a database due to the coallition characters conflict in the db.
For ex when all your posts appear with a bunch of ÂÂ@@ or whatever characters. All you have to do is enter those weird characters at the mod settings and then enter the right symbols that you want to replace and all your problems will be solved.

It can aslo be used to replace text. It can be whatever text you want.

Installation:

To install the mod, upload the includes folder to your forum root folder and then import the wierd_symbol_fix.xml file inside the mod package to Plugins&Products in the acp of your forum. Then go to the mod setting option: Fix Wierd Symbols. It can be found on the left side of the Admin Panel, right above the Maintenace section. And enter the information accordingly.

Note: After doing the replacement, go to: Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Update Counters and run Rebuild Post Cache.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by Threepwud

HA! I did indeed miss that counter update. You sir are a genius.

The only thing I've noticed is that the forum slows down after I've enabled the mod. I'll look into that.

Thanks very much!

You are welcome. Glad to see that you got it solved

After you use the mod you can disable it. And re-enable it again when you want to perform similiar tasks.

[Threepwud]

Originally Posted by Threepwud

edit: after running your brilliant mod and then updating the counters, I simply disabled it and the place went faster again. Awesome stuff.

Could this mod be used to fix my quoting issues too?
[quote author=Jer link=topic=1118.msg46798#msg46798 date=1284059913]
comes from the SMF import and maybe if I can change them all...?

LOL, one step ahead of you. Did you note the quote issue?

[borbole]

Originally Posted by Threepwud

LOL, one step ahead of you. Did you note the quote issue?

I had quoted your post before you added the part about the quote. Can you post a link to how it is displayed after the conversion? Or a screenshot.

[Threepwud]

<a href="http://www.threepwud.com/vb/showthread.php/3157-Freaky-speed-bump" target="_blank">http://www.threepwud.com/vb/showthre...aky-speed-bump</a>

There are plenty of quotes there. It slightly differs from VB quotes and I'll understand if it isn't as straight forward as the apostrophe matter!

Kind regards,
Threep

[borbole]

Originally Posted by Threepwud

http://www.threepwud.com/vb/showthre...aky-speed-bump

There are plenty of quotes there. It slightly differs from VB quotes and I'll understand if it isn't as straight forward as the apostrophe matter!

Kind regards,
Threep

I have converted seevral smf forums to vB and I never experienced that with the quotes. Anyway, that is outside of this mod funcionality. Try to ask it at the Impex forum over at vb.com.

[Threepwud]

Thanks mate, I've asked and a couple have had the issue. Seems you need to tweak impex before the import. Ah wells.

I used your mod to change \[quote author= to \[quote= and whilst the links don't work the threads look amazingly better.

Thanks for your effort - I must point out for your next release that it is WEIRD and not WIERD!

[borbole]

[QUOTE=Threepwud;2096675]Thanks mate, I've asked and a couple have had the issue. Seems you need to tweak impex before the import. Ah wells.

I used your mod to change \[quote author= to \[quote= and whilst the links don't work the threads look amazingly better.

Thanks for your effort - I must point out for your next release that it is WEIRD and not WIERD![/QUOTE]

Thank you for the correcting my typo English is not my first language so my grammer is not very good.

I can''t believe it that no one else caught on it before and it has been up for months now

[CrystaStarLight]

This mod made my showthread.php load very slowly. Perhaps this could use some optimization?

This is what my debug said when the mod was turned on:

# 18.41910 seconds
# Memory Usage 9,335KB
# Queries Executed 25 (?)

This is after I disabled the mod:

# 0.59638 seconds
# Memory Usage 9,335KB
# Queries Executed 14 (?)

It also depended on how many replies were in the thread. If the thread had around 2 replies the thread page loaded okay, but if it had 12 replies it would load like it is shown above. That debug was shown on a thread with 12 replies.

[Threepwud]

I had the same; I changed what I needed then refreshed the post cache in the update counters section. Then I turned it off straight after - the changes had been made and the mod was switched off.

Good stuff.

[borbole]

Indeed. After the mod does its thing then you can disable or even uninstall it.