PHP - Character Replaceing

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

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"

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

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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?

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.

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
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// 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:
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// 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

HI all, something that keeps bothering me is that i do not fully understand the usefullness of the \n newline character.
When i use  for testing in a string it doesn't show the effect in my browser. Only when I press view source I can see that right after the \n character the code jumps down 1 line. Does anyone know how and when to use it? I have see it with the php mail function, but i don't really understand why they use it.

If someone could enlighten me i would be very happy 

Hello everyone,

I have created a widget with php which allows users to put on their webpage and displays some information. To display the widget I am creating a javascript code for users to put on their websites.
The javascript has a source of php page like src="widget.php?id=123" When they put the code on their websites php file is executed and displays some texts which is read from a remote XML file. There is no problem up to this point. But while I am reading from this XML file, the texts which are displayed on users webpage, are not in good format becouse I am converting string texts to ISO_8859-9 charset with "iconc" function.

If the charset of webpage is ISO-8859-9 text are displayed correctly but if it is not, text are not displayed as expected.

In example if the webpage charset is set to UTF-8, characters become unreadable. If I know the charset of webpage I can then convert strings to that charset. But could not find a predifined function thats doing this.

Any idea about this problem ? or any other solutions you advice for this problem ?

Thank you...

I would like to have a generator that basically creates a certain number of mixed characters.
For example 6 characters which use A and B
It would randomly produce things such as
ABAABA
BABABB

I cannot think of any basic ways of achieving this.
Any help would be appreciated even if its written rather than code.
Thank you in advance.

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   

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I am terribly confused... I am trying to display the html body of a message pulled through imap.

I thought that if I did this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

in the html head, that everything would be pretty much figured out for me, but...

When I look at the original message in gmail (prior to being pulled with imap), I get an ellipses(...), but once I display it in my browser, I get a black diamond question mark thingy...

Help!  I've tried all manners of conversion, but suspect I'm completely missing the boat here.

Thanks

I have this command that basically populates my website with titles for pages based on the information that is placed within "info.txt" I have multiple titles being created so I'd like a way of putting them in order beside alphabetically.

My thought was that I could place numbers as the first character in the "info.txt" file and that would allow me to put the titles in an order I find acceptable. Now this causes the issue that I don't want those numbers displayed on my website. So the Echo needs to strip the number.... I'm lost, but my brain thinks it's a good idea.

Here's the code I'm working with:

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<tr>
<td id="body">
<table id="columns" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>

<h2>LSAV Latest Events</h2>
<p>Select an event from below to view a gallery of images from that event.</p>
<ul>
<?php
$dir = 'latest-events';
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {

    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if( $file != '.' && $file != '..') {
$title = file_get_contents( "$dir/$file/info.txt" );
echo "<li><a href=\"event-viewer.php?event=$file\">$title</a></li>";
}
    }
    closedir($handle);