[FX.php List] Anyone know how to escape characters?

[Dave Strickler]

Good idea!
 
I tried a few experiments, and although I didn't trap down an exact
numbers of characters, the POST (yes, I tried changing it from GET)
seems to have the same issues as just using the URL. At about +100
characters, the record is not created in FM. Note I am using FLU v5.0v3
 
Looks like its a problem with using a URL to input 'large' chunks of
data. I don't think its a problem with fx.php.
 
What surprises me is that no one has bucked up again this before? I am
adding in text fields that have the bodies of emails as we use FM as our
CRM. Doesn't seem all that unusual to me. Is it unusually to add in text
like this? Maybe I'm doing things strangely...
 
Dave Strickler
MailWise LLC
617 267-0044 x810 
www.mailwise.com


>>> bastille at arsc.edu 5/16/2005 7:13:04 PM >>>

One thing you can try (that I find myself using quite a bit) is to add

the following snippet just after the FMFind() query:

     <pre><?php echo 'FM URL' . $returnedData['URL'] . "\n"; ?></pre>

   This snippet prints the actual URL used by FXphp to talk to the FM 
server.  You can then cut and paste this in to a browser to see if FM 
will take it or if it has been truncated.

Regards,
   Derek

On May 16, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:

> On 17/5/05 5:45 AM, "Dave Strickler" <dstrickler at mailwise.com>
wrote:
>
>> I am having trouble inserting data into a FM database, and I'm 90% 
>> sure its the data as when I try with test data it works just fine.
>>   
>>  The data that won't import has chars like "[" and "]" as well as 
>> "@", "%", "http://". One of the fields is text, and is about 1.5k 
>> long. While I don't get an error from FX, the record never appears
in 
>> FM.
>>   
>>  Any clues on this? Perhaps I need to escape the data ?
>>   
>>  Thanks,
>>   
>>  Dave Strickler
>>  MailWise LLC
>>  617 267-0044 x810
>>  www.mailwise.com <http://www.mailwise.com>
>
>  Your large text field may in fact exceed the allowable limit on GET

> requests. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood that FX always 
> uses GET when sending data to FM, no matter what method you specify
in 
> your form.
>  --
>  Kevin Futter
>  Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
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