[FX.php List] Yet another annoying single-quotes problem

[Bob Patin]

Well, I finally did an end-run and fixed it by using this:


$hospital = str_replace("’","'",$hospital);

and it works fine... strange though that there's not an easier way...

bob



On Apr 27, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Chris Hansen wrote:

> Bob,
>
> FX.php tries to be smart by encoding special characters as HTML  
> entities.  It you want plain text, try using the PHP function  
> html_entity_decode() on the chunk that you want decoded.  HTH
>
> --Chris Hansen
>   FileMaker 8 Certified Developer
>   FileMaker 7 Certified Developer
>   Creator of FX.php
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>
>
> On Apr 27, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>
>> I get the feeling I've asked the same question 10 times, but I  
>> don't think i've had this problem in this way yet:
>>
>> I'm adding some email functionality to a client's site, and when I  
>> send myself a test email, I get this:
>>
>> St. Robert’s Hospital
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> St. Robert's Hospital
>>
>> I tried using STRIPSLASHES (which I knew was wrong, but I tried  
>> anyway), and I tried HTMLENTITIES too; is there a command that  
>> would prevent this when I'm sending a plain-text email?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob Patin
>> Longterm Solutions
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