[FX.php List] urlencode() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

Gjermund Gusland Thorsen ggt667 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 02:22:00 MST 2006


Hehe, I get that error message sometimes on the same query :-)

It looks like that reason why it show up is that there are some
special characters in a field or a fieldname...

ggt667


2006/11/9, Ben Bradley <batfastad at gmail.com>:
> Yep, exactly the same FX.php file.
>
>
> On 09/11/06, DC <dan.cynosure at dbmscan.com> wrote:
> > sometimes i've seen people with strange errors and it turns out that the
> > FX.php file they thought they were using was not the file they were
> > using. are you sure you are using the same FX.php file in both cases?
> >
> > dan
> >
> > Ben Bradley had written:
> > > Changing the error level does make the error disappear - but I'm still
> > > none the wiser as to why this is actually happening!
> > >
> > > The thing I don't understand is there are no variables being passed to
> > > FX.php that are arrays.
> > > And all the data in the FX.php command are all set as strings - not
> > > using variables
> > >
> > > Here's the contents of my script around the FX calls...
> > >
> > >    // CHANGE ERROR REPORTING LEVEL
> > >    error_reporting( E_ERROR );
> > >
> > >    include('FX.php');
> > >    // FMP QUERY TO GET ARRAY OF ALL TAGS
> > >    $fmp_query = new FX('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx', '591', 'FMPro5/6');
> > >    $fmp_query->SetDBData('TAGS', 'WEB', 'All');
> > >    $fmp_query->SetDBPassword('password', 'username');
> > >    $fmp_query->AddDBParam('CATEGORY', 'XREF AMD');
> > >    $fmp_query->AddSortParam('NAME', 'ascend', 1);
> > >    $fmp_result = $fmp_query->FMFind(true, full, false);
> > >
> > >    $found_count = $fmp_result['foundCount'];
> > >    $fmp_error_code = $fmp_result['errorCode'];
> > >
> > >    $columncounter = 1;
> > >
> > >    // LOOP THROUGH RECORDS
> > >    foreach ($fmp_result['data'] as $key => $fmp_row) {
> > >
> > >        $tag_id = $fmp_row['ID'];
> > >        $tag_name = $fmp_row['NAME'];
> > >    }
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't understand how it can be something to do with my data being
> > > passed to FX.php, when the above code works fine when posted on its
> > > own page with nothing else.
> > >
> > >
> > > Also I've tried looking through FX.php to line 1425 and there doesn't
> > > seem to be a urlencode() function on that line in FX.php
> > >
> > >
> > > I will continue to search!!
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Ben
> > >
> > >
> > > On 09/11/06, Steve Hannah <shannah at sfu.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> This is where a little bit of old fashioned debugging comes in to
> > >> play.  If PHP says that you passed an array into urlencode() then you
> > >> probably did (PHP doesn't usually lie).
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Try adding some print and print_r statements in and around the error
> > >> message so you can see exactly what data is being passed around.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> In particular, do print_r($var_name) (where $var_name is the name of
> > >> the variable passed to urlencode()) just before the offended
> > >> urlencode() call, to see what this array is.. ...
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> etc..
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> The truth will be revealed when you see what is in your variables.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Best regards
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Steve
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ----------------------------------------
> > >> Steve Hannah
> > >> Web Services Developer
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Faculty of Applied Sciences
> > >> Simon Fraser University
> > >> shannah at sfu.ca
> > >> 778-782-7228
> > >> Homepage: http://www.sjhannah.com
> > >> --
> > >> Need to build a database driven web application quickly?
> > >> Try Dataface: http://fas.sfu.ca/dataface
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 9-Nov-06, at 10:45 AM, Ben Bradley wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Hi everyone
> > >>
> > >> I've been using FX.php very successfully over the last 6 months to
> > >> gradually build an intranet database application.
> > >>
> > >> Some of the old pages on our website still use a botched-job way of
> > >> getting data out of FileMaker and into PHP - building a CDML query eg
> > >> http://server.domain.com:591/?FMPro-DB=TEST etc...
> > >> Then on the format files I would have some PHP code which captured the
> > >> filemaker data and turned it into a PHP variable.
> > >> Then I would run an include on that CDML query address which would
> > >> pull in that code and have the filemaker data saved into PHP
> > >> variables. Although this method works, it would encounter problems
> > >> when trying to include a query string that was too long, or trying to
> > >> save data into a filemaker database was particularly tricky.
> > >>
> > >> Anyway now with FX.php I'm having a problem accessing data from our
> > >> database.
> > >>
> > >> The PHP error I'm getting is...
> > >> Warning:  urlencode() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in
> > >> /files/home3/dealerworld/FX.php  on line 1425
> > >>
> > >> But the data gets outputted correctly just underneath that error message.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> The actual live page to see this happening is here...
> > >>  http://www.dealer-world.com/page.php?p=amddirectory&s=listingform1
> > >>
> > >> But you'll have to fill in some dummy information to get to the 2nd
> > >> page of the form where the error's happening - just above the checkboxes.
> > >> It is these checkbox names which are being dragged out of our
> > >> FileMaker database
> > >>
> > >> I've set up a test page where I've literally copy and pasted the code
> > >> from that listingform2 page and I don't get the error, even though the
> > >> PHP code is exactly the same...
> > >> http://www.dealer-world.com/fxtest.php
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> The only difference between the 2 scripts could be that when I'm
> > >> getting the error, I'm calling FX.php from within an included script.
> > >> Would that cause the problem I'm looking at here?
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas / suggestions?
> > >> I find it strange how I get the error on the main site, but not on my
> > >> fxtest.php page.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Best regards
> > >>
> > >> Ben
> > >>
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