Hi there,

Stumbled across an annoying little bug.

I have publication issues listed as Tags within K2. The only problem is that the format for these consists of Publication title + issue date.

In some titles we have ampersands and for branding purposes, these must remain (as opposed to replacing with 'and').

The ampersand included causes the tag to break and the articles listed under that tag will not show.

Is there a way anyone knows of to remedy this?

Any assistance greatly appreciated. Th

Joomla 2.5.

...just to add - I've tried a couple of generic ampersand 'fix' plugins, to no avail.

Go to the K2 Parameters -> Advanced tab and through the Tag System Settings -> Additional character replacements add theThis will prevent the & characters to be stripped through your added tags.

Give it a try and let me know.

Hi Yiota,

Many thanks for your response.

That area (for me) was under the SEO heading - there's not a specific 'Tag System Settings' header in the K2 Parameters - perhaps as I'm on an older version.

Either way, I now have -

Š|S, Œ|O, Ž|Z, š|s, œ|oe, ž|z, Ÿ|Y, ¥|Y, µ|u, À|A, �|A, Â|A, Ã|A, Ä|A, Å|A, Æ|A, Ç|C, È|E, É|E, Ê|E, Ë|E, Ì|I, �|I, Î|I, �|I, �|D, Ñ|N, Ò|O, Ó|O, Ô|O, Õ|O, Ö|O, Ø|O, Ù|U, Ú|U, Û|U, Ü|U, �|Y, ß|s, à|a, á|a, â|a, ã|a, ä|a, å|a, æ|a, ç|c, è|e, é|e, ê|e, ë|e, ì|i, í|i, î|i, ï|i, ð|o, ñ|n, ò|o, ó|o, ô|o, õ|o, ö|o, ø|o, ù|u, ú|u, û|u, ü|u, ý|y, ÿ|y, ß|ss &|&

The last one (in bold) which I added seems to have converted the code you provided.

No joy yet...

Thanks so much for your assistance with this.

I believe that this 'Tag System Settings' section is included in the K2 2.6.7 version. Which K2 version do you use?

v 2.6.5

Hm. Could you upgrade to the latest version?

Hi Yiota,

If upgrading could be avoided, that would be preferable. I have a lot of customisation going on and the fear is that by upgrading, this will be lost.

I'm afraid that I cannot think of a solution on this in your current version. Is the customisation in the core files?

I don't know if this will work but you are free to try.
Make a comparison between the k2tag.php files located in administrator/components/com_k2/tables/ of the 2.6.5 and 2.6.7 versions. Check if there are any differences. Maybe if you added the replacement there would work.

No luck with that, I'm afraid.

I've tried updating versions, but am running into an error:

Fatal error: Class 'K2Controller' not found in SITENAME/components/com_k2/controllers/itemlist.php on line 15

Sorry to be a pain with this - it's a small, but very annoying thing I need to get sorted!

Thanks again.