PHP - Using A Newline Character

I got another problem. It is a counting characters.
When I reload text from database, I want to count how many characters are in text. The problem is that I use the timymce, and there is a tags </p> and formats <span> and other formats. How can I count characters without those format, just pure characters entire text? I need a php code. And some plus - text is in utf8 coding in database with utf8 bin.

I have problem, there are users with "?" character in username, and their address to profile is /profile/username/.
I have var: $username that is that username, now, how can i replace all that characters which cant open users profile..
I mean for "?" i need to put "%3F", how can i replace?
I know with str_replace, but is there any other solution like htmlencode or something like that? :S

Hi, does anybody know why I get a question mark inside a diamond shape where a pound sign should be when i retrieve data from a mysql database? I have tried using latin1_general_ci and utf8_general_ci and they both do the same, don't know whether that is anything to do with it or not? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks to the advice of others on PHPFreaks, I have decided that allowing any character for certain fields on my "Add an Article" form.  However, I still want to define a length between 2 and 100.

How do I re-write my RegEx to accomplish this?

Befo
Code: [Select]
// Check HTML Title.
if (empty($trimmed['htmlTitle'])){
$errors['htmlTitle'] = 'Please enter an HTML Title.';
}else{
if (preg_match('#^[A-Z \'.-]{2,100}$#i', $trimmed['htmlTitle'])){
$htmlTitle = $trimmed['htmlTitle'];
}else{
$errors['htmlTitle'] = 'HTML Title must be 2-100 characters (A-Z \' . -)';
}
}


Here is my best guess...

After:
Code: [Select]
// Check HTML Title.
if (empty($trimmed['htmlTitle'])){
$errors['htmlTitle'] = 'Please enter an HTML Title.';
}else{
if (preg_match('#^[.*]{2,100}$#i', $trimmed['htmlTitle'])){
$htmlTitle = $trimmed['htmlTitle'];
}else{
$errors['htmlTitle'] = 'HTML Title must be 2-100 characters (A-Z \' . -)';
}
}


Debbie

All,
I have a zip code and for example the zip code is 01101. How can I determine if the first character in this is a zero?

Thanks in advance.

so if I have a a string of text or something like

Code: [Select]
http://www.yahoo.com/ajhsijd908340

I can use str_replace to remove "http://" but what can I use to remove the "ajhsijd908340" if every time it is a different set of characters?

Can someone help me with this.  I think I need to use substr:

how do I only echo out everything after the period ( ".")

for example if I have "table.birthday" I want to echo: "birthday"

Hey,

I'm having an issue with using Wikipedia's OpenSearch API - it sometimes gives me characters in a unicode format: "\u00f1" and I would like to convert back into a correctly displayed format (in this case, n-tilde; spanish n).

Any suggestions?

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hello;

I have:
mysql: utf8_general_ci
index.php:  header( ... UTF-8)
index.php: <meta ... content-type ... UTF-8>
index.php, mysql query procedu ... mysql_set_charset( utf8 , .. ) ...

So, if I put a special character in my db, it WILL display correctly in index.php
But, if I put the same character in a php variable, it is BAD ... diamond-shape with question mark inside

Since my special characters work from the db, I would like to also use them in html (index.php ).

am I missing anything? thanks for your time .. Shannon

I need to pass info to a php script via link while ignoring the character '&' for example:
mywebsite.com/myphp.php?info=thisInformation&thecharacter&

is there anyway I can tell php to ignore the character '&' and just read it as text (cause
I understand its a special character..
maybe something like in XML you can ignore the character & by using <![CDATA[ ]]>

thanks!!! much appreciated!!!


PS: this is a must.. since in the end I am passing links.. and urls.. that are like amazon.com/blah&blah   

Im bug fixing a script (not my own) and the use of   "  and  '   hasn't been filtered out before an insert query is ran.

there are about 4 scripts of 30 $_POST["something"] input elements that need to be checked, and i was wondering can i just do a find and replace on $_POST rather than each element?

Thanks.

Hi people!
I have a form with a select list where options are populated from a table in my db..
the string format is like this -> car - branch (ex. toyota - japan so on..)
when viewing the options it displays correctly with the "-" but when i tried submitting the form which will be inserted into the db
the "- branch" gets cut off..
i think i need to encode it but i don't know how to do it..

thanks for any reply!