ampersand showing as & on home page members log in.
I went through and tried all the "fixes" found on this forum and none of them worked.
on the home page after log in it shows avatar and YOUR NAME. Well the ampersand showing as &.
How can this be fixed?

Hi Alex,

Please you do update again your status from sharebox, and do not update the & from the hellome module..

i hope it will help.

thank you

sorry i did not understand. what file name do i need to edit?

Hi Alex,

Ok here is the proper fix

#1 open this file components/com_community/controllers/status.php
- find this code (line 120) and remove it :

$message		= CStringHelper::escape( $message );

$status	= str_replace( array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), "", $status );

$status	= $my->getStatus();

$objResponse->addScriptCall( "joms.jQuery('title').val('" . $status . "');");

$isMineScript 		= '';

$profileStatus      = html_entity_decode( $profileStatus );
			$profileStatus      = preg_replace( '/<br\s*\/?>/', '', $profileStatus );
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			$profileStatus      = preg_replace( '/\n/', ' ', $profileStatus );
			$profileStatus      = preg_replace( '/<a[^>]*>([^<>]*)<\/a>/', '$1', $profileStatus );
			$profileStatus      = addslashes( $profileStatus );

			$isMineScript       = '';

joms.jQuery('#helloMeStatusText').val('$cleanProfileStatus');

joms.jQuery('#helloMeStatusText').val('$profileStatus');

I tried this fix and it still does not correct this issue.

I really need to get this fixed. Can you please expedite the response?

Hi Alex,

I am sorry for the delay regarding this, the fault logged for our developers was for status in the hello me module and not the username as you have reported. (the status has the same fault) I have created a new development ticket and put is as Urgent so the correct fault can be fixed and given to you.

I ma sorry for the inconvenience this is causing our support staff will reply ASAP with the new fix

Hi Alex,

Sorry for the delay and mix up with the fault, the fix for & in the username is attached to this post

Please replace the file in modules/mod_hellome/tmpl/default.php Back up the file before overwriting it

still this "fix" does not correct my issue. ?? what is going on here ??

Hi Alex,

I'm not sure what is happening. I selected new module and selected community hello me then enabled it in the sidebar. I then took this screen shot which shows Alex & Test then i added a status with & and that also shows correctly. I'm not sure if you cleared the browser cache or there is confusion regarding which site the fault is on, but from the test i just did and the screenshot i took both fixes are working.