Itamar Tzadok

Replying but alas can't help much with paypal sandbox.

I'm working on a different extension to allow a per item (course, quiz, quiz attempt, etc.) paypal payment. Obviously this extension does not aim at using the enrollment method which is limited to courses but I can look into adding that. As for per item, last time I checked with paypal they did not have api for a granular IPN which would be required for a per item payment confirmation and activation but they said that they were considering it due to increasing demand. So if the extension is completed in the near future it is likely to require manual activation of purchased items.

See Forum posts add unwanted characters and won't appl... for probably the same issue and a resolution. If that's the same problem you need to set magic_quotes_gpc in your php.ini to off.  

Yes, you need to access the database to convert it to unicode. See http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Converting_your_MySQL_database_to_UTF8 for command line approach, or if you have some database management application such as phpmyadmin (which should be available as a moodle local plugin) you could use it instead of command line.

Too bad. I found some other possible leads but they lead to the server. The php setting magic_quotes_gpc should be off (in php.ini). If the php version provided by your host is 5.3 and above, the setting is deprecated and so probably not the problem. But wouldn't hurt to check with the host. Some other system settings that are mentioned in a reference to a similar problem and should be off are "standard_conforming_strings" and "escape_string_warning" in the PostgreSQL database configuration. So if that's the database provided by your host, it may be worthwhile to look into that.

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