[FX.php List] French and not only characters

[Andy Gaunt]

Dana,

It is wise to encode your php pages that submit data to the database with
the UTF-8.

Trust me, it is not just foreign characters that can cause a problem. I had
this issue on a page I did not encode when someone was copying and pasting
from word. The word 'oddities' characters played the same 958 error with me
(yet I was getting the emails with the full posted information).

Drove me nuts till I remembered the email that someone referenced here with
the different meta tags. I think it was Dan, Dale, Kevin...oh who am I
kidding. I don't remember who it was but a useful reference it was.

Place the following at the top of your pages.

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

This should also alleviate any issues with the square box syndrome
occasionally seen with multi line text fields.

Andy Gaunt
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-----Original Message-----
From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Dana Benciu
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:22 AM
To: adenman at tmea.org; FX.php Discussion List
Subject: Re: [FX.php List] French and not only characters

Hi Andrew,

I tried what you are saying and ... actually I think I have problems 
even with characters like "’" (the very inclined apostrophe) ...

I think Andre is right with the charset utf-8 ... Yes, this only happens 
with these characters and unfortunately my tests from before did not 
include such characters so that's why the info got into the database and 
I didn't see any error ...

Dana.

Andrew Denman wrote:
> Let's try that again...
>
> According to my documentation:
> "958" => "Parameter missing in query"
>
> Make sure the rest of your query is built correctly.  You can check the
URL
> FX.php is sending to FileMaker by putting this on the page after you send
> the query (paste the link that comes from this into your next reply):
> print_r($ReturnedData['URL']);
>
> Does this only happen when you try to enter text with these special
> characters?  
>
> Andrew Denman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Dana Benciu
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 7:02 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: [FX.php List] French and not only characters
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to insert some characters in a FM 7 database like "°" using 
> the FX.php package and I am getting the error #958 and the information 
> is not recorded. If anybody can give some useful advices/ideas, that 
> would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Dana.
>
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Dana Benciu
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