Ampersand character

I found a temp solution to the issue by adding the code you suggest on similar post, sorry my bad i didn’t look it up before as i was tired of trying to get to the bottom of it;

However the issue only fixes the part when the product name appears as such ” M&ampM ”
it however does not fix the issue when you type the following letter and the search results returns with “NO PRODUCTS FOUND”

Thank you.

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function woodmart_ajax_suggestions() {

$allowed_types = array( ‘post’, ‘product’, ‘portfolio’ );
$post_type = ‘product’;

if ( apply_filters( ‘woodmart_search_by_sku’, woodmart_get_opt( ‘search_by_sku’ ) ) && woodmart_woocommerce_installed() ) {
add_filter( ‘posts_search’, ‘woodmart_product_ajax_search_sku’, 10 );
}

$query_args = array(
‘posts_per_page’ => 5,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘post_type’ => $post_type,
‘no_found_rows’ => 1,
);

if ( ! empty( $_REQUEST[‘post_type’] ) && in_array( $_REQUEST[‘post_type’], $allowed_types ) ) {
$post_type = strip_tags( $_REQUEST[‘post_type’] );
$query_args[‘post_type’] = $post_type;
}

if ( $post_type == ‘product’ && woodmart_woocommerce_installed() ) {

$product_visibility_term_ids = wc_get_product_visibility_term_ids();
$query_args[‘tax_query’][] = array(
‘taxonomy’ => ‘product_visibility’,
‘field’ => ‘term_taxonomy_id’,
‘terms’ => $product_visibility_term_ids[‘exclude-from-search’],
‘operator’ => ‘NOT IN’,
);

if ( ! empty( $_REQUEST[‘product_cat’] ) ) {
$query_args[‘product_cat’] = strip_tags( $_REQUEST[‘product_cat’] );
}
}

if ( ‘yes’ === get_option( ‘woocommerce_hide_out_of_stock_items’ ) ) {
$query_args[‘meta_query’][] = array( ‘key’ => ‘_stock_status’, ‘value’ => ‘outofstock’, ‘compare’ => ‘NOT IN’ );
}

if ( ! empty( $_REQUEST[‘query’] ) ) {
$query_args[‘s’] = sanitize_text_field( $_REQUEST[‘query’] );
}

if ( ! empty( $_REQUEST[‘number’] ) ) {
$query_args[‘posts_per_page’] = (int) $_REQUEST[‘number’];
}

$results = new WP_Query( apply_filters( ‘woodmart_ajax_get_results’, $query_args ) );

$suggestions = array();

if ( $results->have_posts() ) {

if ( $post_type == ‘product’ && woodmart_woocommerce_installed() ) {
$factory = new WC_Product_Factory();
}

while ( $results->have_posts() ) {
$results->the_post();

if ( $post_type == ‘product’ && woodmart_woocommerce_installed() ) {
$product = $factory->get_product( get_the_ID() );

$suggestions[] = array(
‘value’ => html_entity_decode( get_the_title() ),
‘permalink’ => get_the_permalink(),
‘price’ => $product->get_price_html(),
‘thumbnail’ => $product->get_image(),
);
} else {
$suggestions[] = array(
‘value’ => html_entity_decode( get_the_title() ),
‘permalink’ => get_the_permalink(),
‘thumbnail’ => get_the_post_thumbnail( null, ‘medium’, ” ),
);
}
}

wp_reset_postdata();
} else {
$suggestions[] = array(
‘value’ => ( $post_type == ‘product’ ) ? esc_html__( ‘No products found’, ‘woodmart’ ) : esc_html__( ‘No posts found’, ‘woodmart’ ),
‘no_found’ => true,
‘permalink’ => ”
);
}

echo json_encode( array(
‘suggestions’ => $suggestions
) );

die();
}

add_action( ‘wp_ajax_woodmart_ajax_search’, ‘woodmart_ajax_suggestions’, 10 );
add_action( ‘wp_ajax_nopriv_woodmart_ajax_search’, ‘woodmart_ajax_suggestions’, 10 );