[FX.php List] Re: Mysterious asterisks appearing in fields

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Are all pages referring to UTF-8 by now?

I would really like to see your script from receival of _POST array to FMNew

ggt667

On 3/7/07, Chris Bisgard <cbisgard at racc.org> wrote:
> As suggested by Gjermund, here's a screenshot:
> http://www.racc.org/resources/fmweb/screen0307.gif
>
> It shows the submit results in the browser on the left, and the results
> in FileMaker on the right. (Note the pipe characters are expected, per
> Chris's suggestion below.)
>
> Chris Hansen wrote:
>
> > Chris,
> >
> > Have you tried echoing out the data from the form on which
> > you post the data to FileMaker?  Do you know where the error
> > is introduced (i.e. does PHP think the asterisks are there,
> > too)?  I'd be interested to know what PHP actually thinks is
> > in that variable at various places along the way.  Sometimes,
> > when I'm doing highly targeted output of these sorts of
> > things I also like to enclose the data being output in pipe
> > characters or something.  Basically, some way to ensure that
> > I'm also aware of any leading or trailing invisible characters.
>
> Hi Chris, thanks. My script does echo the user input from the form, both
> the raw POST data and then the variables I'm generating from them. I
> hadn't thought to enclose the data with pipes to see if there's some
> invisible weirdness there -- good idea. When I did it, it showed that
> the asterisks are getting placed outside the pipes, which I think means
> that the error is occurring in this part of the script:
>
>   $query->AddDBParam('OrgName',$OrgName);
>   $query->AddDBParam('OrgContact',$OrgContact);
>   $addRecord=$query->FMNew();
>
> I also did a print_r of the $addRecord array and found that the
> asterisks appear in that array. And here they are, encoded as '%7C', in
> the FileMaker URL (shortened for ease of reading):
>
> FMPXMLRESULT.xml?-db=CLP&-lay=Web&-max=50&OrgName.op=cn&OrgName=%7CRACC%
> 7C&OrgContact.op=cn&OrgContact=%7CChris%7C&-new
>
> So, this means FX is adding the asterisks? Or am I confused (highly
> likely)?
>
> Thanks again,
> Chris Bisgard
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