PHP - Decoding Ascii Value Encoded Characters Into Utf-8 Characters Inside An Array?

Hi guys!

I am learning PHP now and I am enjoying it. Im not an I.T. graduate that is why Im having very difficult time to understand  codes.

My problem is how to get the last character of a URL that I get using another php code. I can already post the URL on my page but it displays all the URL of the certain page that I get.

Example: the URL is "http://mysite.com/page_1/pp1/?lang=zh" I only want to get the "?lang=zh". I am working under 3 languages and I want to get only that last part of the URL for me to continue my work. I dont exactly know what string or filtering I will do to get that part only.

Please help me guys. I will appreciate all your comments here.

Hi
What code would i use to take the first 2 letters of a post code so for example
CM11 2AY
I want the CM bit what command would strip the first 2 characters out?

Thanks

I want to be able to keep people from entering certain characters in a form. I've tried google, and had no luck so far. Thanks!

First forgive me, I do not know if this is the correct forum for this question. I did not write the code but I have a feeling if its possible to correct it, then its probably coding.

My question is, is there anyway to post larger News articles to the homepage. I am trying to post an article that a friend sent from another site onto mine (giving the other site proper credit). But the article is apparently too big. I do not know how many characters the article is, or what the character limit is set by Nuke 8.0.

Is there anything that I can do?

Thanks..oh and congrats on apparently being the only active PHP forums :-S I have tried a few others and they haven't made posts since 2011. Anyways thanks in advance for any and all help.

Hi,

May I know how can I remove all characters after the first 3 characters after .

e.g : 123.512645124

I want to maintain 123.512 without rounding up.

Please advise and thanks. I wanted to use strstr and trim functions but I am not able to use it to get what I want.. can some guru please assist .. thanks again

$name = "D'Angelo" 

ok I'm running a mysql query as

$query = " INSERT INTO TEST (ID, NAME) VALUES ('NULL','$NAME')";


If the name = "D'Angelo" the apostrophe would cause it to fail. Is there a way to do this without striping the characters? 

Does anybody know of a function or a way of letting me get the string between whatever characters? Say I had [SOMEWORD] text [SOMEWORD] then how could I go about getting the value "text", please note I'm not trying to make bbcode or similar.

How can I remove certain string from a statement. For example: A blagh blah blah blah blah. http://blah.com

Where I would want to remove everything from "http" and after. So the final statement would show as: A blagh blah blah blah blah.

or need to extract all tags <p> from a site in Italian

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header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');

function curl_file_get_contents($url)
{
 $curl = curl_init();
 $userAgent = 'Googlebot/2.1 (http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)';
 
 curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL,$url); //The URL to fetch. This can also be set when initializing a session with curl_init().
 curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE); //TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.
 curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,10); //The number of seconds to wait while trying to connect.   
 
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent); //The contents of the "User-Agent: " header to be used in a HTTP request.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE); //To fail silently if the HTTP code returned is greater than or equal to 400.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE); //To follow any "Location: " header that the server sends as part of the HTTP header.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE); //To automatically set the Referer: field in requests where it follows a Location: redirect.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5); //The maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute.   
 
 $contents = curl_exec($curl);
 curl_close($curl);
 return $contents;
}
$get = curl_file_get_contents($url);


function getTextBetweenTags($tag, $html, $strict=0)
{
/*** a new dom object ***/
$dom = new domDocument;
/*** load the html into the object ***/
if($strict==1)
{
$dom->loadXML($html);
}
else
{
$dom->loadHTML($html);
}

/*** discard white space ***/
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;

/*** the tag by its tag name ***/
$content = $dom->getElementsByTagname($tag);

/*** the array to return ***/
$out = array();
foreach ($content as $item)
{
/*** add node value to the out array ***/
$out[] = $item->nodeValue;
}
/*** return the results ***/
return $out;
}


<?php
$content = getTextBetweenTags1('p', $html);

foreach( $content as $item )
{
echo $item.'.';
}
?>

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"con un certo miglioramento del testo e, cosa più importante, con le firme dei sottoscrittori. scusate la ripetizione. che però, dicevano gli antichi, iuvat. un caro saluto. "

Or need your help
regards,cristian

Last question for the week now. Almost finished.

All I need to do is:

Remove characters from the beginning and the end of a string.

Essentially:

Code: [Select]
a:4:{s:4:"full";s:111:"http://www.mothernatureinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/166637_482678026567_509616567_6394964_6868412_n.jpg";i:96;s:117:"http://www.mothernatureinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/166637_482678026567_509616567_6394964_6868412_n-96x96.jpg";i:60;s:117:"http://www.mothernatureinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/166637_482678026567_509616567_6394964_6868412_n-60x60.jpg";i:32;s:117:"http://www.mothernatureinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/166637_482678026567_509616567_6394964_6868412_n-32x32.jpg";}
Needs to become

Code: [Select]
http://www.mothernatureinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/166637_482678026567_509616567_6394964_6868412_n.jpg
Any ideas?

Im not sure f this is the right spot for this or not but...

I have a website that has a content box that has a fixed height and width.

How would i make it so after the box is full it puts a link to read more at the bottom of it? Also images may be used as well.

Its also for a wordpress blog

Hi experts. 

I am received a GET variable into a page which is a id with a value as uuid:3242_2323_4444_9909_433/child_repeat[1]. Which is being used in my mysql query. 

So my query will be SELECT * from table_1 WHERE id = $id.  

However php is treating this string differently, my query fails, it says that it has a error near :3242_2323_4444_9909_433/child_repeat[1]. 

So it seems that its interpreting the colon as something else and removing the text before the colon.