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RE: Non-alphanumeric characters in supplier ID
I'm glad there is some tolerance for these characters, but ampersands and apostrophes do not work perfectly well (not that I had expected them to.)
For example, AT&T's ID is... well... AT&T. If I do a vendor search on "AT&T" in the partial code field, I get no results. If I just search for "AT", AT&T is in the results, but if I select it, I get a red error box above the Vendor Data table on SelectSupplier.php: "ERROR Message Report : The date does not appear to be in a valid format. The date being converted from SQL format was: " The same error message shows at the top of Suppliers.php (and all inputs are blanked out) if I choose "Modify Or Delete Vendor Details" on SelectSupplier.php.
We have another vendor with an apostrophe in the ID. That one doesn't give me an error on SelectSupplier.php if I select it, but if I go to edit details, the apostrophe is escaped with a \ in the query string parameter to Suppliers.php and the invalid date format error shows there and the inputs come up blank. If I take out the escape character in the query string, the vendor loads just fine. However, if I try to save any changes, I get yelled at for having an invalid supplier ID.
I'm not surprised that these don't work, I just wanted to point out what happens with these two specific characters. The vendor with the leading space and the ones with hyphens seem to be behaving "normally."
I realize I'm breaking conventions here, but I just wanted to point out that certain non-standard characters will definitely break things differently than others, and that the error messages are obviously not indicating what's really going on.
Thanks for the input, y'all...
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