[FX.php List] "degrees" symbol

[DC]

ahh... i see the dilemma.

how about making a calc field in FMP that does the replace using the 
substitute() function on the word degrees for the symbol? then just use 
the calc field in the export instead of the static text field. goodbye 
global find replace.

dan

Alex Gates had written:
> Dan,
> 
> Thanks for the response - 
> 
> Well, we use an Applescript to take the FileMaker data and put it into
> InDesign - we currently do a global find and replace in FileMaker before
> we can export it to InDesign - I'm re-working the web side of things and
> thought it would be handy to be able to put the degrees symbol in
> automatically to eliminate the find and replace before exporting to
> InDesign...
> 
> So, I may be out of luck.  I need it to display properly on the web -
> but I also need it in FileMaker as the degrees symbol to export it.
> 
> Looks like we may have to stick to the find and replace
> 
> Alex P. Gates
> 
> 
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:30 AM
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> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] "degrees" symbol
> 
> 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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