[FX.php List] "degrees" symbol

[DC]

it sounds like you want to let users type the word degrees and then 
store it as a degree symbol in FMP... right?

why would you want to do that? the only reason i can think of is if you 
have some users looking at the data in native FMP layouts.

i would think you should just encode the degrees symbol to send it to 
FMP through FX.php:

° OR °	OR °


This should do the trick (stores HTML entity in FMP so that when it 
comes back out the Web page will show a degree symbol):
 > $instructions2 = str_replace("degrees", "°", $instructions);


As an aside...
look at urlencode() to automatically change degree symbol to entity in 
PHP. also, look at htmlentities() which also has a charset parameter.

you'd have to use urldecode() AND/OR html_entity_decode() to get it back 
to display as a degrees symbol in a web page.

dan

Alex Gates had written:
> Greetings-
> 
> I'm doing a string replace to replace the word "degrees" with the
> degrees symbol "°".
> I'm using this code for the string replace:
> 
> $instructions = trim($_POST['instructions']);
> $instructions2 = str_replace("degrees", "°", $instructions);
> 
> 
> It works fine in the PHP and displays correctly on my "please verify"
> page - but when I try to submit this to FileMaker I get:
> Error 958 - Parameter missing in query.
> 
> I only get this error if I happen to use the word "degrees."  It works
> fine if I don't.
> 
> My charset is: iso-8859-1
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Alex P. Gates
> 
> 
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