Escaping single quotes

[JimMichels]

The data is passed to Sales Force. Single quotes like in "L'espoir" are posted like "L'espoir".

Thanks in advance

[AMeidl]

I am having the same issue and need to be able to pass a value to Salesforce that has a single quote in the value. "Bachelor's" needs to be passed but "Bachelor's" is being passed instead. Is there a workaround for this?

[zaus]

Unfortunately it's a "feature" of Wordpress that they escape slashes; are you using Gravity Forms, by chance? It probably doesn't matter, but GF provides the form submission directly from the $_POST array, which WP escapes.

As I hastily mentioned on the support forum thread, you should be able to apply a late filter to ...service_filter_post or even to ...get_submission and call stripslashes_deep on the post array. Something like:

add_filter('Forms3rdPartyIntegration_get_submission', 'fix_3rdparty_slashes', 20, 2);
function fix_3rdparty_slashes($post, $form) {
    return stripslashes_deep($post);
}

[AMeidl]

Thank you very much! This solved the problem perfectly!

[JulesBern]

@AMeidl can you post exactly how you got this to work?

[AMeidl]

I used the exact code supplied in Zaus post above and put it in my functions.php in my themes folder.

[AMeidl]

I should probably mention we are using Gravity Forms so the $_post array part is compatible with our needs.

[zaus]

So...I think it made sense to just fix it directly -- anyone want to try the plugin from GitHub and let me know if that fixes the issue, but doesn't break GF submissions in general? If it's good I can push the change to Wordpress too.

[JulesBern]

@zaus I just tested it and can confirm that the fix from GitHub works. (Tested with GF 1.8.19)
Thank you!

[zaus]

Sorry, I had forgotten to commit the changes to SVN as well as GitHub. Now live as v1.6.4.3.