[FX.php List] special characters and fm

Thu Sep 13 11:21:07 MDT 2007

Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions.  I am using Dreamweaver
for an editor.  I changed the settings and resaved my documents but it
still isn't cooperating.

I put it through a couple sites that check headers (found here:
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-headers-charset ) and
they all spit the content-type at me as: Content-Type:text/html.

This is the page:
http://www.dso.ufl.edu/nsp/parents/familyweekend/booth/
If you view the source you can of course see the header.  

The form submits ok when I do not use any pasted characters but just
in case:

//make new record for entry
$addMember = new FX(xip, xport);
$addMember->SetDBData('xDB', 'xLayout');
$addMember->SetDBPassword('xx', 'xx');

//add info 
$addMember->AddDBParam('Sponsor', $sponsor);
$addMember->AddDBParam('Contact Name', $cname);
$addMember->AddDBParam('Contact Email', $cemail);
$addMember->AddDBParam('Contact Phone', $cphone);
$addMember->AddDBParam('Booth Title', $title);
$addMember->AddDBParam('Booth Description', $desc);
$addMember->AddDBParam('Special Needs', $special);

//add result
$addResult = $addMember->FMNew();

Really nothing fancy :).  I will continue trying to figure this out. 

Thanks again,

Alicia Cosenza

-----Original Message-----
From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Troy Meyers
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:02 PM
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: RE: [FX.php List] special characters and fm

Alicia,

The Parameter Missing error is one of the symptoms of not using:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

I always put it in the <HEAD> section, not just at the top of the
page, like this:

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>My Page Name</title>

......

Are you using Dreamweaver? It puts its own in too, so if you have
both, there might be a problem. Take a look at the code.

I don't have to deal with the "both" problem now, the right thing is
put in a newly created page, because I changed the Preferences in
Dreamweaver. Look under Preferences, and find the "New Document"
panel. For Default Encoding select the dropdown menu item "Unicode 4.0
UTF-8"

WHATEVER EDITOR you are using, the META tag isn't enough, it also
needs to be SAVED using the correct encoding. For example, for BBEdit,
it's "UnicodeTM (UTF-8, no BOM)" which is selectable in one of the
popup menus at the bottom of the window.

Maybe that helps?

-Troy

> Hi,
> 
> Unfortunately it did not :(.
> 
> I would have loved it if it would have.  The error code I am getting
is
> 958.  I think you are right though that it is something to do with
> encoding since the text that is returned in place of the characters
is
> nonsense.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Alicia Cosenza

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