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.

[CrystaStarLight]

Oh, you don't need to keep the mod on after it's run? Awesome thanks. =)

[borbole]

Originally Posted by CrystaStarLight

Oh, you don't need to keep the mod on after it's run? Awesome thanks. =)

No, that is not needed.

[Rafa-el]

Question, it works only for one char each time? I mean, add the char, and then update the message cache?

[1hko]

Does this work for usernames too? I switched over yesterday and have a BUNCH of weird usernames now.

[Blooded]

Originally Posted by 1hko

Does this work for usernames too? I switched over yesterday and have a BUNCH of weird usernames now.

i think you should make a db query to do that

PHP Code:

UPDATE user SET username='changedusername' WHERE username='originalusername' 


This mod only work with post table not user and that is what you need

[OldSchoolDSL]

not installed, but tagged for possible later use

Thank you.

[amorosso]

Can you update this for 4.0.7 or 4.0.8

[DocZaius]

I'm having the same problem that Threepwud had.

Quotation marks got changed to "
Apostrophes got changed to& # 3 9 ; (without the spaces)
Colons got changed to & # 5 8 ; (without the spaces) which really messes up URLs.
Periods got changed to & # 4 6 ; (without the spaces) which also messes up URLs.

And, of course there's the problem with the quotes.

However, your mod doesn't seem to fix this on my forum, which is running vB 4.1.3. It's making me a sad panda. Any tips?

[un? in?]

Thank for mod
Thank for share

[danswano]

Hello borbole,

can you tell me how this mod works exactly, is it like variable replacement in template or like banned words that replaces bad word with *
i mean it just convert them for users view or it replaces them permanently in the database?

Thanks.