PHP - Encoding A Pathname

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, does anybody know why I get a question mark inside a diamond shape where a pound sign should be when i retrieve data from a mysql database? I have tried using latin1_general_ci and utf8_general_ci and they both do the same, don't know whether that is anything to do with it or not? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, i would like to encode a url example.

$error="You must be signed in";
$enc=urlencode("http://localhost/finxed/asku/asked.php?error=$error");
header("LOCATION: $enc");

Could some one tell me what can i do to achieve my desired result. I want the header to take to the LOCATION, which is $enc but i wanted it to be encoded when displayed in the url field. The current code is not working.

I'm trying to write a zend restful api and am return a json result. Everything works excepts when I am encoding a very large string such as a article with multiple paragraphs. The result is null in this case.  Do I need to do something with the text before performing a json encode.

Code: [Select]
$this->getResponse()
            ->appendBody($this->_helper->json($article));

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?

Hi, here is my script to get the usernames of a few members. I'm trying to encode it using JSON. Code: [Select]
<?php
require("connect.php");


$date = date("Y-m-d");
$picarray = array();
        $handle = opendir ('pqimages/'.$date.'/');
        while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
            if($file != "." && $file != "..") {
$getusername = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE lastupload='pqimages/".$date."/".$file."'");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($getusername)){

$usernames= $row['username'];
$people = array();
$people[] = $usernames;

echo json_encode($people); 
 
}
            }


        }


?> the only problem is the output:["mumford"]["franzwarning"]["tetris"]
when it should be: ["mumford", "franzwarning", "tetris"]

any recommendations?
Thanks,
George

Hi,
I haveof issues regarding encoding. in my old hosting server I had none.
To enforce the server to use utf-8. looks like the server use another encoding, so this is my htaccess file:

<FilesMatch "\.(htm|html|css|js)$">
 ForceType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
 </FilesMatch>
 <Files "default.php">
 ForceType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
 </Files>
 <Files "emailvalidate.php">
 ForceType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
 </Files>

 
When I try to execute emailvalidate.php I get a strange behaviour. here is the output:
connection($host,$user,$pass,$db); if((!isset($B1))and($flag=="0")) { // form auto submitted by List $event = $eventcompo; if($event=="ChooseEvent") { $msg="Please select an Event! "; $_SESSION['BODY']=""; $_SESSION['HEADER']=""; $_SESSION['FOOTER']=""; } $_SESSION['BODY']=""; $_SESSION['HEADER']=""; $_SESSION['FOOTER']=""; $sql="SELECT * FROM partners_adminmail, partners_event WHERE partners_adminmail.adminmail_eventname = partners_event.event_name AND partners_adminmail.adminmail_eventname = '$event' "; $res=mysql_query($sql); while($row = mysql_fetch_object($res)) { $from=$row->adminmail_from; $sub=$row->adminmail_subject; $_SESSION['BODY']=$row->adminmail_message; $_SESSION['HEADER']=$row->adminmail_header; $_SESSION['FOOTER']=$row->adminmail_footer; $status=$row->event_status; } $msg=""; header("Location:index.php?Act=email&from=$from&sub=$sub&header=$header&body=$body&footer=$footer&event=$event&status=$status&msg=$msg&to=$to"); exit; } if((isset($B1))or($flag=="1")) { // echo "submitted from button"; $event = $eventcompo; $from =trim($fromtxt); $sub =trim($subjecttxt); $body =trim($bodytxt); $header =trim($headertxt); $footer =trim($footertxt); $getst =$statusradio; $_SESSION['HEADER']=$header; $_SESSION['BODY']=$body; $_SESSION['FOOTER']=$footer; if ($getst=="active") { $status="yes"; } else { $status="no"; } } // validations if(empty($from)) $err = "1"; else $err = "0"; if(empty($sub)) $err .= ".1"; else $err .= ".0"; if(empty($header)) $err .= ".1"; else $err .= ".0"; if(empty($body)) $err .= ".1"; else $err .= ".0"; if(empty($footer)) $err .= ".1"; else $err .= ".0"; if($err!="0.0.0.0.0") { $msg="Invalid Entry...Please do not empty any fields"; $_SESSION['HEADER']=$header; $_SESSION['BODY']=$body; $_SESSION['FOOTER']=$footer; header("Location:index.php?Act=email&from=$from&sub=$sub&event=$event&status=$status&msg=$msg&to=$to"); exit; } if($event=="ChooseEvent") { $msg="Please select an Event! "; header("Location:index.php?Act=email&from=$from&sub=$sub&event=$event&status=$status&msg=$msg&to=$to"); exit; } if($from != '[from]') { if(!$partners->is_email($from)) { $msg="From field should be a valid E-mail Id ! "; header("Location:index.php?Act=email&from=$from&sub=$sub&event=$event&status=$status&msg=$msg&to=$to"); exit; } } ////////////// test sending if ($flag=="1") { if(!$partners->is_email($to)) { $msg="Please Enter a valid E-mail Id on Test Field !!"; header("Location:index.php?Act=email&from=$from&sub=$sub&event=$event&status=$status&msg=$msg&to=$to"); exit; } $sql_admin="select * from partners_admin"; $res_admin=mysql_query($sql_admin); $row_admin =mysql_fetch_object($res_admin); //common header and footer $adminheader=stripslashes($row_admin->admin_mailheader); $adminfooter=stripslashes($row_admin->admin_mailfooter); $admin_email = stripslashes($row_admin->admin_email); $today =date("Y-m-d"); /////////// mail sending $headers = "Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n"; $headers .= "From: $from\n"; $headers =str_replace("[from]",$admin_email,$headers); $body1="
"; $body1.="



"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="
"; $body1.="



"; $body1.="

 $adminheader

"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="

 $header

"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="

 

"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="

$body"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="

 

"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="

$footer

"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="

$adminfooter

"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="
"; $body1.="
"; $body1.="


"; $body1.="
"; //Replace variable in the content with values $body1=str_replace("[aff_firstname]","Affiliate FirstName",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[aff_lastname]","Affiliate LastName",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[aff_company]","Affiliate Company",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[aff_email]","Affiliate Email",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[aff_loginlink]","Affiliate Url",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[aff_password]","Affiliate Password",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[mer_firstname]","Merchant FirstName",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[mer_lastname]","Merchant Lastname",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[mer_company]","Merchant Company",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[mer_email]","Merchant Email",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[mer_loginlink]","Merchant Url",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[mer_password]","Merchnat Password",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[from]",$admin_email,$body1); $body1=str_replace("[commission]","Commission Earned",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[program]","Program Name",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[type]","Transaction type",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[date]","Transaction Date",$body1); $body1=str_replace("[today]",$today,$body1); mail($to,$sub,$body1, $headers); $msg="Mail has been send to ".$to; header("Location:index.php?Act=email&from=$from&sub=$sub&event=$event&status=$status&msg=$msg&to=$to"); exit ; } ////////////// updating table $sql="select * from partners_adminmail WHERE adminmail_eventname='$event'"; $res=mysql_query($sql); if(mysql_num_rows($res)>0) { $sql1="UPDATE partners_adminmail SET adminmail_from ='$from',adminmail_subject='".addslashes($sub)."',adminmail_header='".addslashes($header)."',adminmail_footer='".addslashes($footer)."',adminmail_message='".addslashes($body)."' WHERE adminmail_eventname='$event'"; $sql2="UPDATE partners_event SET event_status ='$status' WHERE event_name='$event'"; $res=mysql_query($sql1) or die ("cant exe"); $res2=mysql_query($sql2) or die ("cant exe 2 nd"); $msg="Message updated "; header("Location:index.php?Act=email&from=$from&sub=$sub&event=$event&status=$status&msg=$msg&to=$to"); } else { $sql1="INSERT INTO partners_adminmail ( adminmail_id , adminmail_eventname , adminmail_from , adminmail_subject , adminmail_message , adminmail_header , adminmail_footer ) VALUES ('', '$event', '$from', '".addslashes($sub)."', '".addslashes($body)."', '".addslashes($header)."', '".addslashes($footer)."')"; $sql2="UPDATE partners_event SET event_status ='$status' WHERE event_name='$event'"; $res=mysql_query($sql1); echo mysql_error(); $res2=mysql_query($sql2) ; echo mysql_error(); $msg="Message updated "; header("Location:index.php?Act=email&from=$from&sub=$sub&event=$event&status=$status&msg=$msg&to=$to"); } ?>

Hi,

I am trying to get some charecters to display properly in emails that are sent via a form on my site.

The finnish characters &auml; and &ouml; come out as squares when viewed in Outlook. I have tried various encoding types such as UTF-8 and Western European (dreamweaver), both as the script encoding and as the encoding in the mail() function.



$body = 'S&auml;hk&ouml;posti:' ;

mail($salesEmail, "Call Back Request", $body, "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\nFrom: $salesEmail") ;


= 'S�hk�posti:' or just squares in Outlook.

I have also tried hard coding them as &auml; and &ouml; and the symbol literals to no effect.

Does anyone know what is causing this?

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