How to create products with special characters in Name / Reference

[silvioscavone]

Hello,

 

I have a CSV to import, but a lot of products have special characters in product name, reference, meta title and meta description.

 

I tried to change Validate.php as below:

 

public static function isCatalogName($name)
    {
        // return preg_match('/^[^<>;=#{}]*$/u', $name);
        return preg_match('/^$/u', $name);
                
    }

 

and

 

public static function isReference($reference)
    {
        // return preg_match('/^[^<>;={}]*$/u', $reference);
         return preg_match('/^$/u', $reference);
    }

 

but I succeded to import the products with "#" character but I still can't import products with ">" and "=" characters

 

Any idea?

 

Thank you very much.

[Daresh]

When I do imports like that, I always remove those characters from names or references. I think it's better this way.

[silvioscavone]

Hi Daresh and thank you for your reply.

 

I'd like to do that, but my references have to be saved by Google crawler exactly like they are born, in order to be found by customers.

 

Do you know how to edit Validate.php  at  return preg_match('/^[^<>;=#{}]*$/u', $name);   ??

[selectshop.at]

Sorry, but there is no SEO impact on this. AND BTW you are opening a security lack on your software/server. Hacker could execute queries, when you allow these both characters on URL.

 

See also the same question here, discussed some days ago: https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/606489-prestashop-sucks/