PHP - Alpha Index Don't Return Accented Letters

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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My problem is that it does not recognize accented characters.///
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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

Im trying to use a cropping feature but when the image is cropped the alpha channel is lost. Anyone know where im going wrong here?


if($ext == 'png')
{
    $srcImg  = imagecreatefrompng('avatars/'.$original);
    $newImg  = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);

    imagealphablending($srcImg, true);
    imagesavealpha($srcImg, true);
    imagecopyresampled($newImg, $srcImg, 0, 0, $x1, $y1, $width, $height, $width, $height);
    
    imagepng($newImg, 'avatars/'.$user_name.'_avatar_cropped.png');

    $link->query("UPDATE ".TBL_PREFIX."users
                    SET u_avatar_cropped = '".$user_name."_avatar_cropped.png'
                    WHERE u_username = '$user_name'")
                    or die(print_link_error());
}

Hi,

I have a page that lists the names of the Artists in one column, and the title of their song in the next column. I've included a sort section that allows users to view the artist (with the corresponding title) that starts with whatever letter they press. I've now come to a point where I need to add in a check for numbers.
(View attached image to understand what we're talking about)

So if the artist name starts with any number between 0-9, it will be shown in order on the page once a user clicks on "#". I've tried doing it various ways, but can't seem to get it just right.
Here is the code (I took out all my attempts to get the numeric sort working):

<?php
session_start();

include_once('inc/connect.php');


if (isset($_SESSION['username'])){
$loginstatus = "logout";
}
else{
$loginstatus = "login";
}
if(!isset($_SESSION['sort_counter']))
{$_SESSION['sort_counter'] = 1;}

if(($_SESSION['sort_counter']%2) == 0){ //test even value
  $sortcount = "DESC";
}else{ //odd value
  $sortcount = "";
}

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM sheets ORDER BY artist");
$sheetscount = mysql_num_rows($result);
$sortletteris = $_GET['letter'];
$downloadclick = $_GET['downloadclick'];
$show = $_GET['show'];
$today = date("Y-m-d");

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/style.css" />
</head>
<body bgcolor="#343331">

<!-- Header -->
<div id="header">
<div id="headerleft"></div>
<div id="headermiddle"><a href="index.php"><img src="img/logo.png"></a></div>
<div id="headerright">

</div>

</div>

<!-- Content Top -->
<div id="contenttop">
<div id="links">

<!-- 92x30 -->
</div>
</div>

<!-- Content Middle -->
<div id="contentmiddle">
<div id="content">
<div id="sort">
<?php 
echo "<center>".$sheetscount." Sheets Available<br />";
echo "<a href='newlyadded.php'>New Sheets</a><span>&nbsp; | &nbsp;</span><a href='request.php'>Request a Sheet</a></center>";
$letters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
echo "<center><div id='letters'>";
$i = 0;
while ($i<26){
$sortletter = $letters[$i];
echo "<a href='index.php?letter=".$i."'>".$letters[$i]."&nbsp;</a>";
$i += 1;
}
echo "&nbsp;<a href='index.php'>All</a></div></center>";

if (($sortletteris)!=""){

// The letter that was clicked is set to this variable
$mysortletter = $letters[$sortletteris];
//echo $mysortletter;
// lname LIKE '$letter%'
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM sheets WHERE artist REGEXP '^[$mysortletter]' ORDER BY artist $sortcount"); 

$_SESSION['sort_counter'] = $_SESSION['sort_counter'] + 1; //increment after every run
}

elseif (($sortletteris)==""){

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM sheets ORDER BY artist $sortcount"); 

$_SESSION['sort_counter'] = $_SESSION['sort_counter'] + 1; //increment after every run

}

  $greenboxleft = "greenboxleft";
  $greenboxright = "greenboxright";
  $grayboxleft = "grayboxleft";
  $grayboxright = "grayboxright";
  $colorvalue = 0;
  
echo "<br /><table width='600px' align='center' style='border-collapse:separate;
border-spacing:0px;'><th style='background-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: #6aa504;'>Artist</th><th style='background-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: #6aa504;'>Title</th>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  if(($colorvalue%2)==0){
  $styleleft = $greenboxleft;
  $styleright = $greenboxright;
  }
  else{
  $styleleft = $grayboxleft;
  $styleright = $grayboxright;
  }
  
  
echo "<tr>";
  echo "<td align='center' width='250' id='$styleleft'><div id='songsboxleft'>". ucwords($row['artist']). "</div></td>";
  echo "<td align='center' width='250' id='$styleright'><div id='songsboxright'><a target='_blank' name='downloadclick' href='".$row['url']."'>" .ucwords($row['title']). "</a></div></td>";

echo "</tr>";
$colorvalue++;
}
echo "</table>";

?>
</div>


</div>

</div>

<!-- Content Bottom -->
<div id="contentbottom">

</div>

</body>
</html>

I have 2 GD images, one is a JPG, the other is a gd created image.

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<?php
header("content-type: image/png");

$img = imagecreatefromjpeg("./real/soldier.jpg");

$img2 = imagecreatetruecolor(300, 300);
imagesavealpha($img2, true);
$color = imagecolorallocatealpha($img2, 255, 0, 0, 75);
imagefill($img2, 0, 0, $color);

$final = imagecreatetruecolor(300, 300);
imagecopymerge($final, $img, 0, 0, 0, 0, 300, 300, 100);
imagecopymerge($final, $img2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 300, 300, 100);


imagepng($final, null, 9);
I am trying to place the gd created image (Red image) on top of the other (soldier.jpg), but for some reason I can not figure out why the red is a solid red when I told it to have transparency to it (75).

So basically how do I create images like this with saved alpha?