The profiles module allows administrators to create custom profile fields, which are grouped into categories that the administrator specifies. These category names are allowed to contain slashes, such as "this/that example".

Later, when users attempt to edit information under My Account -> Edit, categories containing slash characters appear empty even though they should display editable profile fields. I suspect that the problem is that the slash character is being processed as part of the URL:

http:// somedomain/user/2/edit/this/that+example (clean URLs)
http:// somedomain/?q=user/2/edit/this/that+example

Removing the slash characters from affected categories under User Management -> Profiles seems to resolve the problem.

Ideally, slash characters could be included in category names. At the very least, admins should be prevented from entering slash characters when typing a category name.

Comments

dwmsyron’s picture

dwmsyron commented
Version: 5.3 » 5.x-dev

I submitted this for Drupal 5.3, but it's still an issue as far as I can tell. I don't have a Drupal 6 site to test it.

To reproduce:
1) Go to User Management -> Profiles
2) Add a new field of any type
3) In the top "Category" field, enter a name that contains a forward slash character, eg "some/thing"
4) Go to My account -> Edit, and click on the Category title from step 3

You will get an empty page with "Submit" and "Delete" buttons at the bottom, just as if you manually entered a URL with a non-existent category, eg:
http:// somedomain/user/1/edit/SomeNonExistentCategory

Again, I think the reason is that the / character is incorrectly appearing as part of the URL, and that's mangling the way Drupal processes the request. Is there a way to escape the / character so that everything displays correctly?

dpearcefl’s picture

dpearcefl commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Considering the time elapsed between now and the last comment plus the fact that D5 is no longer supported, I am closing this ticket.