PHP - I Want Special Code

Am trying to save a text input that require the use of some php special characters like (" ", ' ' ) e.t.c. When ever i post the data, the system returns an error. please, how can i go about this?   Thanks in advance

Hi all

I need to retrieve a remote file and store it on my server. There are several methods to do this, but all of them fail when the URL contains special characters such as spaces.

Consider the following URL: 'http://www.somedomain.com/Images/Products/MyProduct (Large).jpg'

Assuming the allow_url_fopen  directive is set to "on" in the php.ini, one can normally call:

$url = ...
$handle = fopen($url);


to access the file.

However, the space in the filename causes a Bad HTTP Request (Response 400).

Using urlencode to encode the url doesn't solve the problem either, as all forward slashes and the colon after the protocol get escaped, and fopen doesn't recognize it as a URL.

Besides manually replacing all the characters in the URL that are not colons or forward slashes (and are considered 'special'), can anyone give me any other solutions to make this work?

Thanks

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$DB->query("SELECT id,name from ibf_members where name = '{$ibforums->input['to']}' LIMIT 1");
       $e2 = $DB->fetch_row();
   if ($e2['id']){
   }else{
   $std->Error2("Username doesn't exist dude");
   }

Ok, if I put in my username let's say

1of my users name is

"$tabB"

if I do that, it doesn't work

is there a work around?

hello;

I have:
mysql: utf8_general_ci
index.php:  header( ... UTF-8)
index.php: <meta ... content-type ... UTF-8>
index.php, mysql query procedu ... mysql_set_charset( utf8 , .. ) ...

So, if I put a special character in my db, it WILL display correctly in index.php
But, if I put the same character in a php variable, it is BAD ... diamond-shape with question mark inside

Since my special characters work from the db, I would like to also use them in html (index.php ).

am I missing anything? thanks for your time .. Shannon

Sorry, but this is a copy/paste from another site, thought it would be helpful here.     

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    When did your problem begin? Just a few days ago. My hosting provider will not do squat about it, even though I did nothing to the database to cause this issue.
    Please describe your problem. it is a problem that has suddenly developed in the mysql database. I have several members that have previously registered with a " ' " (apostrophe special symbol) in their name. No problem for nearly a YEAR till just a few days ago, when the server was being sluggish yet again ( NOTE: DO NOT HOST WITH WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM as this is not an isolated incident with their server messing up a database). Now, people who have registered names cannot log in, they get a 404 not found error. Additionally, I cannot change their name to something without a ' in it through ACP, I get the same error... 404. I have to go into the DB to change it there and then I can pull up their name. And finally, when someone tries to register with a ' in their name like O'Brady, for instance, it will throw the same error. Has anyone seen this, and if so, how can it be resolved?
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I hope this is a fairly quick one, I've got a form I'm building where i may well have some special characters being inserted (accents mostly) now normally i would just pop in an HTML editor (TinyMCE) and let that deal with it. But i am looking to export this data as a CSV for use in excel, which means i can't afford to have HTML tags within the output.

I am sure someone will have come across this before any suggestions?

many thanks

Matt

I'm having a problem that I didn't seem to have in the past... for some reason, it just popped up... or maybe I'm just noticing it.  Anyway, I this in a field in a mysql database:

"Here's a test."

When I query the database and echo the text to the page with this code:

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$result = mysql_query("SELECT question FROM signin WHERE email = '$email'") or die (mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);

$test = $row[0];

echo $test;

This is the result:

"Heres a test."

Any ideas on why the apostrophe is not being displayed and how to fix it?  I'm stumped.  Thanks for any help.

How do I make it so if I get the question right, I have access to view the next page?
For example, if I get this question right in index-1.php correct, it would take me to index-2.php (like in the script below),
but if you don't get the question correct in index-1.php, you cannot have access/view index-2.php.

Why I need this?  Well, if you change the URL http://--------/index-1.php to http://--------/index-2.php, you can easily go from index-1.php to index-2.php without having to answer the question correctly.

index-1.php:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){

$number = $_POST['number'];
if ($number == "elephant"){
header("Location: http://localhost/index-2.php");
exit();}
}
?> 

<html>
 <head>
  <title>PHP Test</title>
 </head>
 <b>LEVEL 1</b>
 <body>
 <p>
<font face="Courier New">c291cmNl</font>
</p>
 <br/></body>
</html>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post">
  Answer: <!-- "elephant" --> <input type="text" name="number" /><br />
</select>
<input name="submit" type="submit">
</form>

Thanks

I just came up with this idea I got for my registration script, where when the user has complete all steps in the registration process, he/she comes to a page that displays this:
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<h1>Step 3: Activate your account</h1>
<h2>Congratulations, <strong><?php echo $_SESSION["user"]["username"]; ?></strong>!</h2>
<p>An email has been sent to <strong><?php echo $_SESSION["user"]["email"]; ?></strong> with an activation key, and important information regarding your account. Please check your email to complete registration.</p>

Then this:

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$email_client = preg_match ("/[@][a-zA-z0-9]{10}\.com$/", $_SESSION["user"]["email"]);
$email_link = "<a href='http://www." . $email_client . ".com'>Go to " . $email_client . " mail now!</a>";
echo "<p class='center_align'>" . $email_link . "</p>";

Basically, what it does, is it figures out what email provider the user supplied as their email, and generates a link that allows them to go to that website, without having to type it in the address bar (I think I got that idea from facebook lol; only they probably do it differently).

So anyway, It's not complete, and this is where I need someone's help...

I assign a preg_match function to $email_client, so if it finds a string like "@yahoo.com", $email_client will be true, but that's not what I want. I want $email_client to equal a string, such as "yahoo" or "aol" based off of what the preg_match function finds, WITHOUT using if/else statements.

Before I did an if/else statement for every email provider I could think of, but I think it better if I do it this way, as some people have crazy a** email names lol.

So, basically what I want to do is this:
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<?php
//Step 1: Check email
preg_match("/[@][a-zA-z0-9]{10}\.com$/", $_SESSION["user"]["email"]);
//Step 2: Somehow assign the "a-zA-z0-9{10}" part to a variable
//Step 3: Generate link with that variable used in the "href" attribute and the label
?>

But I have no idea how to go about this...Help?

Hello everyone,
how i can insert to the db string that include "$_GET['id']", and i need this as is.
in the table i need to see the string $_GET['id'] and not the value.

any ideas ?