Enverex Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I just noticed an odd bug. When viewing a game in the database, the description just below the title displays fine: Pioneer is a free and open source space trading and combat simulator video game inspired by the commercial proprietary Frontier: Elite 2. Pioneer is set at the start of the 31st century. The player may choose from one of three starting... But when you click the Images tab: Pioneer is a free and open source space trading and combat simulator video game inspired by the commercial proprietary Frontier: Elite 2.
 
 Pioneer is set at the start of the 31st century. The player may choose from one of three starting... (note the HTML special codes after "Elite") Example page - http://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/images/76332 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlansix Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Hi @Enverex, This is a known issue. When we originally scraped together a bunch of data to start up the database, some of the data we received was formatted incorrectly. (i.e. see the htmlentities in your second quote above) As it's not a code-breaking issue at the moment, what we've done is a simple stopgap measure to correct for it when it shows up. Basically, the database GUI currently tries to hide the erroneous text from most of the places where it is displayed. If you notice some erroneous htmlentities anywhere, simply submit any change request to that item (i.e. you can even submit an empty change request for it. Hit the edit button, edit nothing and hit submit.), and the backend will remove all htmlentities present in that item. Removing them all server-side is something we're thinking of doing once we've stabilized the database. For the moment, removing them organically will have to do :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enverex Posted May 19, 2017 Author Share Posted May 19, 2017 Ah, no worries. I'll do that for now then when I spot them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enverex Posted May 19, 2017 Author Share Posted May 19, 2017 I just realised, this isn't original data from the DB creation. This is a game I submitted only a week or two ago, so something's not right there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlansix Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Good catch then! I'll see where they're coming in from o.O. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlansix Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 There we go. Fixed it. Also removed all erroneous carriage return HTML entities from the database. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enverex Posted June 14, 2017 Author Share Posted June 14, 2017 Cool. Nicely done Vlansix. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlansix Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 This is still present, I believe. Will look into it and advise. Watch the issue tracker ;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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