Reply To: Backslashes in field attributes breaks ACF5 upgrade & save

• jsilver

• November 4, 2014 at 4:38 am

@sheikadv – thanks, but I think we should cut Elliot some slack too, I’m sure he is pretty busy and this is somewhat of an edge case.

That said, it affects a lot of the fields I use (given that I am using Regex and PHP code a lot) and I ended up having to make even more changes for my Validated Field plugin. The changes are still in “beta” while I do more testing – but I could really use some help if you have time. The links to the beta version can be found here and should correct for importing and saving fields with a backslash. The extra fixes were to allow for Repeater fields, and escaping both single and double quotes in values.

Definitely backup your database first, but any feedback you can give me would be great – even if you don’t use the Validated Field part, it should still fix the backslash issue for all fields.