PHP - / Are Killing Me

Hey there everyone. Today isn't my lucky day since I'm dealing with international characters. (Arabic). What happens is the following:

Arabic entered in form > saved to MySQL > Retrieved from MySQL > outputted as XML > used in an application (Google maps if it makes any difference).

Plain and simple, the problem is that the final output is this:

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%u0645%u0639%u0644%u0645
which definetly isn't arabic.

What I've tried so far:
- Loading the Google Maps thing directly from XML which I manually created and put the arabic chars into -> WORKED! (meaning I cut out the saving and retrieval of info from the db to see where the problem may be coming from)
- Set the database collation and charset to utf8_unicode_ci. (Also collation of the fields inside the table) -> NO LUCK!
- Tried encoding all PHP files and html files involved in the process to UTF-8
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">-> NO LUCK!
- Tried a suggestion from Google which said try to execute this query after connection with the db:
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET utf8'); 
-> still no luck

First time I get that frustrated. I guess the problem isn't with Gmaps and XML. Something to do with PHP & MySQL because when the raw XML files displays correctly, Gmaps works like a charm. And the only way I got the XML file to show correctly as said earlier was to manually create it and enter the arabic text in it.

Thanks a lot for any help provided!

I have some OOP code im working on and I have some interactions with the database. However, mysql_fetch_array fails to be working. Have I missed something?
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class core
{
var $array_batsmen = '';
var $array_bowlers = '';


// Query to get batsmen
function get_batsmen()
{
return $this->array_batsmen = mysql_query('SELECT id, name, ability, strength FROM wtw_players WHERE team_id = 1 ORDER BY id ASC');


}

// Query to get bowlers
function get_bowlers()
{
$this->array_bowlers = mysql_query('SELECT id, name, ability, strength FROM wtw_players WHERE team_id = 2');
}  



// Generate array of batsmen to be used
function generateBatsmen()
{
while ($array = mysql_fetch_array($this->array_batsmen))
{

echo $array['name'];

}


}

}

The functions are called later normally, i've only included the necessary parts. Basically I have the var $array_batsmen which stores the mysql_query. This is then later used with a mysql_fetch_array to return names from the earlier query.

But nothing happens! It doesn't return anything (don't worry, I have a return later on). The loop just doesn't seem to work :/

Ok, what I want to happen is, if if($_POST['select'] == 'choose'){ is submitted, the script to display an error and not proccess anything after with the die(); message displayed to the user, but it's not showing the message, and infact when if($_POST['select'] is submitted as another array (I'm sorry, is that the correct term?) it still kills the whole script.

I've check in my db an nothing is updating the tables so I guess die is working to an degree.

I've tried it without the die commands an it works as it should so I know the info does get sent without the die

Here is my code so far -


<?php
/**************************
database info
****************************/
$host = "***";
$user = "***";
$pass = "***";
$db = "***";
/****************************
define variables
****************************/
$name = $_POST['name'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) OR die ("Could not connect to the server."); 
mysql_select_db($db) OR die("Could not connect to the database."); // connect to server or die :(
?>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
if($_POST['select'] == 'choose'){ 
    die("please select a shout or request from the drop down");// if no drop down is selected, kill the script and explain why
}
 
 else if($_POST['select'] == 'shouts'){
  // begin shouts
$message = htmlspecialchars($message);
$message = nl2br($message);
$message = mysql_real_escape_string($message);
$name = htmlspecialchars($name);
$name = mysql_real_escape_string($name);
$class = "shout"; // assigns the css class to be used when the results are called
{
mysql_query("INSERT INTO shoutbox (name, message, class) VALUES ('$name', '$message', $class)");
}}
// begin request

?>
<link href="css/vip_sheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<div id="shout-container">
<div id="shouts">
<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM shoutbox ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 0,10");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
?>
<div class="<?php echo $row['class'];  ?>">
<b><?php echo $row['name']; ?></b><br />
<?php echo $row['message']; ?></div>
<?php
}}
?>
</div>
</div>


thank you

Hello Everyone,
                        I am very very new to php, i recetly code some php script for my website, but now stuck with some horrible errors. At first the same scripts were running quite fine, but just today its start giving me erroe, i can't figure out whats the issue, i try to uninstall and install XAMPP again and again, configure php.ini file but still no result. following are the error message i am getting:

Warning: include_once(C:/xampp/htdocs\include\search.php?start=0&page=0&product=black&cat=All Categories) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No error in C:\xampp\htdocs\initialsearch.php on line 6

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'C:/xampp/htdocs\include\search.php?start=0&page=0&product=black&cat=All Categories' for inclusion (include_path='.;\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\initialsearch.php on line 6

i also set the include path in php.ini , but its also not helped. It will be a great help if someone can help me to solve this issue. i am attaching following files alone :

initialsearch.php
search.php

Also , i am running WINDOWS 7 and XAMPP 1.7.3

Waiting for some help thanks again.

Hi
I have 2 problems

1) I am making a script which will show NS records i.e.
NS1 -- blah blah
NS2 -- blah blah

This is what I have done

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$domain_name = $_POST[domainbox]; // From text Box
$dns = dns_get_record($domain_name, DNS_NS);
$ns_1 = $dns['0'];
echo $ns_1['taget']; // This means NS1 = blah blah

I did this because when we do echo of Code: [Select]
$dns = dns_get_record($domain_name, DNS_NS), out put is Out put is
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Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [host] => yourdomain.com
            [type] => NS
            [target] => ns1.yourdomain.com
            [class] => IN
            [ttl] => 70144
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [host] => yourdomain.com
            [type] => NS
            [target] => ns2.yourdomain.com
            [class] => IN
            [ttl] => 70144
        )

)
But it is not showing any output. My brain is screwed up, didnt found anything on google

2) If a domain have 4 or 8 i.e. more than 2 name servers, then how to do its output ?