Easypopulate Wrecks my HTML

[Arrgh]

Hi guys, I did lots of Googling, searched this site and the OSC site before posting this, I know repeat questions are annoying.
After some struggles, I got EP to accept my text files. CHMODd the temp dir, added model numbers, etc.
But I have lots of html in the item descriptions (thanks to the great WYSIWYG editor) and it gets wrecked when imported via EP.
I turned off the "replace quotes" feature, and this causes it to hang up on ' marks during import. I tried search/replacing the ' marks with /', which still resulted in the same errors during upload.
Is there a rewrite/code change in easypopulate.php or something that will allow me to upload product descriptions with all my html intact?
Thanks.

[michael_s]

You must replace single quotes with \' NOT /'

Backslash is the escape character not forwardslash...

[Arrgh]

Thank you! You're a saint to answer all these questions. I run a forum myself so I know how it can be.
Ok, so I ended up editing the easypopulate.php file, changing this:

$items[$i] = str_replace('\"\"',""",$items[$i]);
					if ($replace_quotes){
						$items[$i] = str_replace('\"',"&#34",$items[$i]);
						$items[$i] = str_replace("\'","&#39",$items[$i]);
					}
				} else { // no magic_quotes are on
					// check if the last character is a quote;
					// if it is, chop off the 1st and last character of the string.
					if (substr($items[$i],-1) == '"'){
						$items[$i] = substr($items[$i],1,strlen($items[$i])-2);
					}
					// now any remaining doubled double quotes should be converted to one doublequote
					$items[$i] = str_replace('""',"&#34",$items[$i]);
					if ($replace_quotes){
						$items[$i] = str_replace('"',"&#34",$items[$i]);
						$items[$i] = str_replace("'","&#39",$items[$i]);

to this (added a ; mark after the &#32 and &#34) -- even wrapped in the code tags, this forum is interpreting those strings into the actual " and ' characters

$items[$i] = str_replace('\"\"',""",$items[$i]);
					if ($replace_quotes){
						$items[$i] = str_replace('\"',""",$items[$i]);
						$items[$i] = str_replace("\'","'",$items[$i]);
					}
				} else { // no magic_quotes are on
					// check if the last character is a quote;
					// if it is, chop off the 1st and last character of the string.
					if (substr($items[$i],-1) == '"'){
						$items[$i] = substr($items[$i],1,strlen($items[$i])-2);
					}
					// now any remaining doubled double quotes should be converted to one doublequote
					$items[$i] = str_replace('""',""",$items[$i]);
					if ($replace_quotes){
						$items[$i] = str_replace('"',""",$items[$i]);
						$items[$i] = str_replace("'","'",$items[$i]);

So now the pages render with tables intact, etc, but images are broken. Right click/properties on a broken image gives me the image URL with a %22 tacked on the end (there are no %22 strings in easypopulate.php) like so:

http://www.deepstealth.com/store/images/atulips.jpg%22/

BUT viewing the source on the page shows the image url as having a #34 w/semicolon (again being rendered on this forum page as a space char below, although in the code it is the actual #34semicolon string)

<img width="230" hspace="10" height="153" alt="voice" src="../../../store/images/atulips.jpg"/>

So I'm stumped as to where the %22 is coming from, and why properties and viewsource give different info on the same image.[/code]

[Kyle_Bassett]

I am wondering if Anyone figure this oue out yet?