PHP - Utf-8 Ascii Encoding Errors

Hey there,
wondering if anyone knows what this topic will be about okay lets start:

I have a search function on my site. Basically I do this:

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if $_POST -> redirect ?search=$_POST

if $_GET['search'] - > sql_query($search);
Of course I am working with functions like
mysql_real_escape_string - addslashes - htmlspecialchars , but I have the following problem:

when redirecting chars like & % ? ! kill my $_GET var.

Which function solves this?

My solution:
I convert every char in $_POST into an ascii code -> redirect ?search=$ascii_codes
convert back into $string and do safe search.

Hello everyone,

I am trying to see if a term, sent from a form, is in an array that has been pulled from the database.

The problem I am having is that while the terms look the same the one from the database is using an Ascii character for a forward slash. & # 047 ;

I have tried adding the Ascii to the form value but it just rendered as a forward slash (no surprises there I suppose)

So the main reason for asking is that for all the other items in the form I can use in_array. This keeps things really tidy and easy to use.

Any ideas how I can still use in_array and get around the Ascii problem?

Cheers

Ian

I have the following code:

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$str = ($stringcontents[$step+38]);
$str1 = ord($str);
$bgcolor = convertchar($str1);
?>
<td bgcolor='<?php echo $bgcolor;?>'>
<span title='<?php echo $fieldname;?>' style='color: <?php echo $fgcolor;?>; font-size: 12pt'><font color="<?php echo $fgcolor;?>"><?php echo $stringcontents[$step];?></font></span>

the convertchar function takes the ord value of the ASCII chr and sets a variable for bgcolor and fgcolor using HTML color codes.  The background sets correctly, but the foreground ASCII chr is always black and does not use the font color code.

What do I need to do to get the ASCII chr to change to a color other than black?


Added:
I am using a default charset:

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=IBM437">

How do I display the actual errors in IIS 7.5?

If I miss a semicolon, I get:

"HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error"

absolutely useless. In prior versions, I could see the line and get to the PHP error.

How do I display PHP errors?

I've added:

set_ini('display_errors', '1');

but it doesn't help.

Hi,

Could anyone tell me what this encoding is please Code: [Select]
<?php $_F=__FILE__;$_X='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';$_D=strrev('edoced_46esab');eval($_D('JF9YPWJhc2U2NF9kZWNvZGUoJF9YKTskX1g9c3RydHIoJF9YLCcvalRRM3RkeXV3ZkpOZWs5PThJaUVdeGwKMlJWIE9HNzFVNE01WDZMLjBEWj59bm9ne3pXY0JzS2JtWVNGSHZhUHJxWzxoQXBDJywnNnlGeHN2aTVtU1BZdWxJelFxZ0tmY0pqa1ZFYTQ9e2Jod2RVT0ddLzwycE1BVy5CMDhYMSA+ClpybmVvOX03THRbTjNEQ1RIUicpOyRfUj1zdHJfcmVwbGFjZSgnX19GSUxFX18nLCInIi4kX0YuIiciLCRfWCk7ZXZhbCgkX1IpOyRfUj0wOyRfWD0wOw=='));?>
Thanks in advance

Hello all. I have a php script that creates an xml file pulled from a mysql database. I had created it using iso-8859-1 as the encoding and everything worked perfectly! However, the client wants it encoded at UTF-8.

$_xml ="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>\r\n";

When I do that I get the following error --

An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://www.....


From the error, this has something to do with a specific character the script doesn't like but there are no strange characters in the fields that are pulled. Any ideas what may be the problem?

I would greatly appreciate any help!

Hi every one
I want to encode my website and I've just found the attached file .

What is this encoder  ? is there anyway to encode that ?

Thanks

When a user clicks on a topic they are transfered to its post, which is retrieved by the name of the topic as given by the url value. up to now i have just used urlencode. But its trickier when a user adds slashes and dots into the mix. for example the title of the post is testing/testing. The url will go to www.asimpleforum.co.uk/t/testing/testing. How would i get around this since url encode doesnt do the job? I could replace slashes and dots with their own unique symbol but that produces the problem when someone uses one of those symbols that i use to replace in their topic title. I know one site in particular that replaces all dots and slashes with a hyphen (-), but how would you know what to turn the hyphen into when you query the database for that topic? Anyone have any ideas?

Seem to be having a problem with json_encode.  My first time using this.  What I have is some php generated filenames that include their relative paths along with some attributes such as extension,width & height.  I have made a php array out of these with the filename string as the first level key and the attributes being an array under each of those keys.    An example: Array ( [/photos/mainmenu/Chateau_dAgassac] => Array ( [img] => jpg [caption] => txt [w] => 600 [h] => 400 ) [/photos/mainmenu/IMG_1358] => Array ( [img] => jpg [caption] => txt [w] => 600 [h] => 400 ) [/photos/mainmenu/IMG_1367] => Array ( [img] => jpg [caption] => txt [w] => 600 [h] => 400 ) )   I then did a json_encode of this array and assigned it to a JS variable and it looks like I want it to look in my js code when I view the source of the output page.  Except for one thing.  All the keys (filenames) have a backslash in front of all the forward slashes that are part of the path.  This complicates things when I try and take a filepath/name string from my html and use it to grab some attributes for that filename   An example of the js array: img_data = { "\/photos\/mainmenu\/Chateau_dAgassac":{"img":"jpg","caption":"txt","w":600,"h":400}, "\/photos\/mainmenu\/IMG_1358":{"img":"jpg","caption":"txt","w":600,"h":400}, "\/photos\/mainmenu\/IMG_1367":{"img":"jpg","caption":"txt","w":600,"h":400} }   This is literally how it looks in a view of the source code of my browser page.   What's the trick to accessing this js array now when I have a filename (href) in my html <img> tag that obviously no longer matches what I have in my js array?

hello i have problem with reading utf-8 text from normal text file with utf8 encoding. I am bulgarian i want to read and write bulgarian text but i cant.
        $fh = fopen("pics/names.txt", 'r');
        $theData = fread($fh, 5);
   fclose($fh);
        echo $theData;

This is what i use. Iam with windows 7. Pls help me...

Hi guys,

I'm constructing a PHP document, using SimpleXML- I want to set the encolding of the document to "ISO-8859-1" - how do I do this..

This prob is driving me nuts... Can someone please help?

Thanks in advance.

Will