[FX.php List] French and not only characters

[Dana Benciu]

It finally worked, but it gave me such a hard time! So just for me to 
know, is this related to the FX.php package, or rather to FMSA (7 in my 
case)? Why would that be?

Thanks a lot for the help,
Dana.

Andy Gaunt wrote:

>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
>T: 407.810.4722
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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
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>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:
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>>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
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>URL
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>>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']);
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>>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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