[FX.php List] error 958 parameter missing from query

[Joel Shapiro]

Hi William

Dale Bengston found the cure for me when I was having problems with  
people pasting from Word, and from what you've said, it sounds like  
it will likely be your salvation as well.  (I was able to verify the  
[pre-fix] problem & then the fix, by pasting in formatted text copied  
from a Word document).  Here's what Dale wrote:

On Feb 17, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
> Somewhere along the line, I got this bit of intelligence about  
> character set encoding in html documents. Forgive me, I don't  
> remember which generous FileMaker developer spread this bit of  
> wisdom; I can't take credit for it but I sure have reaped the  
> benefits!
>
> FM7SA
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>
> FM5-6U US
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;  
> charset=iso-8859-1">
>
> FM5-6U EU
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;  
> charset=iso-8859-15">
>
> Choosing the correct charset will take care of the Word copy-and- 
> paste problem.
>
> -Dale

HTH,
-Joel


On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:32 PM, William Akey wrote:

> Thanks Michael,
>
> Well, it is beginning to come together. Now, the question is, how  
> to prevent
> the posted data from stopping the registration process cold. I  
> obviously
> can't control what people submit, so there has to be a way to clean  
> out the
> junk on the php side of things.
>
> This is new territory for me. Any  ideas on how to reliably clean  
> out the
> junk in php before submitting the query to the database?
>
> Thanks
>
> William