I am using Joomla 1.5.17 with VirtueMart 1.1.4 and I have purchased JoomSef and the VirtueMart extension.

When JoomSEF creates the meta tag information for the page title it is adding a '\' character wherever I use an apostrophe (single quote) in the category or product name.

I have checked the database content and it does not seem to be escaped there so could you please advise what can be done about this.

There is a previous thread which referred to modifying $replacements = in config.sef.php which is now configuration.php but this file does not refer to anything to do with preceding apostrophes with a slash. I assume that JoomSEF is calling addSlahes() prior to generating the meta tag.

I expect others have experienced this before.

Please advise

Hello,

Thank you for your report. We'll fix this problem in next version of our VM extension.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

Hi,

That's good to hear but when might that be?

I need to fix it now even if it means a hack to the existing code which will be overwritten when your new version is released so if you could direct me to the appropriate place where this occurs in the code then I will update the PHP myself...

Thanks

It should be released today.

OK. In that case I'll wait.

I am currently at 3.7.0 and it recommends I upgrade to 3.7.2 which I haven't done yet.

Should I wait and upgrade when the next release is ready?

It should be enough to upgrade only the VM extension for JoomSEF, the new 2.0.31 version is already released. Use the Manage Extensions or the Upgrade page to upgrade the VirtueMart extension. You will need to delete the already created URLs for VM using the Manage SEF URLs page and clear the JoomSEF's cache so they can be recreated with the new extension.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team