PHP - Ms Word Special Character Replacement

<form action="main.php?id=test.php" method="post">
<input name="name" type="text" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Look Up" />
</form>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$today = date("Y-m-d");
$pname = rawurlencode($_POST['name']);
$xml_feed_url = 'http://api.eve-online.com/eve/CharacterID.xml.aspx?names='.$pname.'';

The above works perfect until the user enters a character like ' to the box, how do I get it to pass the ' into the address?

Thank you

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! 

I have this code to pull the first few words from the body text to use as a title. But, when the body contains apostrophe, it shows on my title as &#39;. I found the following code that's supposedly fixes the code. But, I can't figure out how. I need to add this:
$return = = htmlspecialchars_decode(token_replace($output, 'node', $node), ENT_QUOTES);
Or something similar ... to this:
Code: [Select]
$limit = 10;
$text = $node->body[$node->language][0]['value'];

$text = strip_tags($text);
      $words = str_word_count($text, 2);
      $pos = array_keys($words);
      if (count($words) > $limit) {
          $text = substr( $text, 0, $pos[$limit]);
          $text = trim( $text );
          $text = rtrim( $text, '.' );
          $text = trim( $text ) . '...';
      }

return  $text;

Thanks in advance.

I'm having an issue, and I can't think of a good way to fix it that wont make the code too messy.

Long story short, pull data from database and display it. One of the fields is "Description" however on this particular page i want to limit the description view to 250 characters, and i do it like so...

Code: [Select]
if(strlen($row['Description']) > 250)
     { echo substr($row['Description'],0,250); }

This works great, however it has it's issues. This particular one that I need to find a work-around for is if the description contains any HTML, it will break the text following the above echo. I realized this when the 250 limit cut a link in half <a href="http://www.xy    and it cuts that off there which then causes my ...more link to assume it's linking to www.xy which clearly returns a broken page.

My question is how can i avoid this, is there an easy way to notice wait i just opened a tag, forget 250 limit finish it just before or just after the tag that is being cut off.

Thanks in advance.

Hi guys, I did read allot of documentation on the internet about reading/writing/parsing an XML file. I ended up using the following code, because I really have large files (some about 200MB) and regular dom does not work:

while ($xml->read()) {
switch ($xml->nodeType) {
case (XMLReader::ELEMENT):
if ($xml->localName == "job") {
$node = $xml->expand();
$dom = new DomDocument();
$n = $dom->importNode($node,true);
$dom->appendChild($n);
$job = simplexml_import_dom($n);


The problem I have is a special character error in the xml file, error returned on this line: "$node = $xml->expand();"

I am literally banging my head to the wall to find a simple solution to this. I already have a cleaning function, but that can be applied only after the code above. As the file is large, to clean it, I would have to use the same code above to work on partial content at once, so I would have the same special character problem when I would try to read and split the file.

I bet I am not the first one to be in this situation, but after about 5 hours of searching on the internet, I cannot do it no more. And I am not a php expert to come up with a new idea.

One other thing to do probably would be to split the file into multiple files, and read them after that, without using the XMLReader. But this would ask for a different application.

If, for example, on a file where I have an error, I do the reading with simplexml, without using the XMLReader, I don't get the error. But I cannot use simplexml on the files, since file size is variable. I have to use a reliable method that works for all situations.

Hopefully someone has an idea to this STUPID situation!

Thanks.

Hello all,

I have a script uploading files on the server.

I would like to send a confirmation to user if the file had been uploaded well.

Code: [Select]

$targetFile =  str_replace('//','/',$targetPath) . $filename;

move_uploaded_file($tempFile,$targetFile);

if (str_replace($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'],'',$targetFile))
{
mail($to, 'upload notification', "Dear Mr/Mrs $fixedname, the file entitled $filename has been successfully uploaded");
}else {
mail($to, ' upload notification', "Dear Mr/Mrs $fixedname, the file entitled $filename has been NOT uploaded");
}

I presume I do something wrong because it doesn't work. The successfull email is sent each time.

Thank you very much for helping,
Eric

I am having trouble trying to fix my eregi call in my script.

I have a reporting tool that grabs information from the user agent when they email help questions.  I used eregi to find the string in an array and print out when it finds a match.

I don't fully understand the PCRE functions so i don' t know if i am using them right.

what i have is
foreach($OSList as $CurrOS=>$Match) {
        // Find a match
        if (eregi($Match, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
        {
                // We found the correct match
                break;
        }

        
}

I know i need to change this around for PCRE preg_match maybe but i am not sure.  if anyone could send me a tutorial or help me out it would be great.

EDIT: notice the foreach was not correct

I want to duplicate my website but I don't want to have to edit my original files to change like the phone number on the page and upload it to my duplicate site, I just want to either insert coding on my duplicate website that would cause my original website to show up differently, like changing the phone number listed on the page.   

$out = wordwrap($data,400,"@");
$output = explode("@",$out, -1);

By default a -1 no longer works properly for me so I need a similar method to get the same output.
I made a game back then that reads the php file. So I could change the extension to .php4/.php5 (forget which one would work) the sockets will still link to the default .php file.
So how can I fix this?

Hi guys, I need to find a way to do the following

in this string:
Code: [Select]
{"id":"51","value":["Lorem Ipsum","Lorem Ipsum","new"]}
I need to match Code: [Select]
"id":"51"
If that is matched, I want to remove that ENTIRE string. How would I go about doing that?

In other words, I run a preg_match or something like that and if "id":"51" is found, i need to remove the entire element in which it is contained. In this case the element is the above mentioned string.

Any ideas? Perhaps with RegEx? (I have no clue how to use RegEx)

My code for replacing user input is as follows:
function Replace_BB($text)

{
        $bb = array(

'@\[u\](.*?)\[\/u\]@is',

'@\[i\](.*?)\[\/i\]@is',

'@\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]@is',

'@\[img\](.*?)\[/img\]@is',

'@\[url\](.*?)\[/url\]@is',

'@\[url=http://(.*?)\](.*?)\[/url\]@is'

); 

        $html = array(

  '<u>$1</u>',

  '<em>$1</em>',

  '<strong>$1</strong>',

  '<img src="$1" />',

  '<a href="$1">$1</a>',

  '<a href="$1">$2</a>'

  ); 

        return preg_replace($bb, $html, $text);

}

print_r (Replace_BB($_POST['data'])); 


How can I use an if statement to decide how to put in my replacement.

So for example:
Code: [Select]
$html = array(
  'IF XXXXXX THEN DO THIS>>>>> <u>$1</u>  ELSE DO THIS >>>> <u>$1 Error</u>',

Hi, I currently have some PHP scripts that verify form data using ereg() as follows:

if (ereg(".",$var1)==0)
{
//do something
}

where instead of the argument "." I also use "\@" or "\....*", etc. to test whether certain form input is in the correct format (e.g. testing for a valid email address, etc.).

However, I have understood that ereg() is being deprecated. What is the best/easiest function to replace ereg() with?

Thanks!

Hi guys, I am writing a "login" script  that will be on my main page(I have it inside of <head></head> tags). I want it to take a user name and password, store it in a variable that is persistant with all pages on my website. Is that possible? How can I make a variable that will carry over to a page that doesn't have the original code? E,g, $Login = "alogin"; then when my client goes to a different page $Login still == "alogin"?
I hope this is understandable.
I am not writing a very advanced script, I just want the input form to store the users login name/password so he or she may access a section of the site that has more options available if they're logged in.

Hi experts. 

I am received a GET variable into a page which is a id with a value as uuid:3242_2323_4444_9909_433/child_repeat[1]. Which is being used in my mysql query. 

So my query will be SELECT * from table_1 WHERE id = $id.  

However php is treating this string differently, my query fails, it says that it has a error near :3242_2323_4444_9909_433/child_repeat[1]. 

So it seems that its interpreting the colon as something else and removing the text before the colon.