[FX.php List] POSTing via Ajax to FX.php loses the newline chars--where?

[Carl Anderson]

I added this line:

str_replace("\n", "\r", $AnnounceText);

That didn't change anything, unfortunately.

Also to test things I went ahead and mocked everything up in a separate page
and am testing in Firefox (to weed out the problem that Gjermund suggests).
No change with that, either.

-- 
Carl Anderson 
Technical Support Analyst
Distance Learning 
Herberger College of the Arts
Arizona State University
http://herbergeronline.asu.edu


> From: Derrick Fogle <derrick at fogles.net>
> Reply-To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:29:50 -0600
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] POSTing via Ajax to FX.php loses the newline
> chars--where?
> 
> Convert the \n to \r just before sending the data to the database. In
> my experience, FX.php only turns \r into Pilcrows in Filemaker, not
> \n. But... it seems to output \n for pilcrows, instead of \r.
> 
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
> 
>> \n will be overridden in Safari, but not FireFox, is my experience.
>> 
>> a bug in Safari perhaps? At least this bug affects <textarea> element
>> 
>> ggt667
>> 
>> On 3/8/07, Carl Anderson <Carl.Anderson at asu.edu> wrote:
>>> I've got a very simple Dashboard widget project (using FX.php on
>>> the back
>>> end) going, and I'm having trouble figuring out where in the
>>> process my
>>> error is occurring.
>>> 
>>> Essentially the widget is using Ajax to POST some text, possibly
>>> with line
>>> breaks (or blank lines between paragraphs) to a PHP page, where
>>> FX.php takes
>>> that info and inserts it into the database.  The trouble is that
>>> at some
>>> step of the process the \n characters are getting lost, so:
>>> 
>>> Test
>>> Test
>>> Test
>>> 
>>> becomes "TestTestTest" in the actual database.
>>> 
>>> I know many of you are using Ajax implementations, based on the
>>> discussion
>>> recently, so I thought there might be someone who can shed some
>>> light on
>>> things and point me in the right direction.
>>> 
>>> I've got a sharp-minded colleague assisting, but we're both a bit
>>> stumped...at least I know I am!
>>> 
>>> Any and all assistance would be appreciated, even if it's just to
>>> tell me
>>> that it's the Ajax problem and not FX.php.  (Even if you could
>>> give me a
>>> workaround, I'd be happy!)
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Carl Anderson
>>> Technical Support Analyst
>>> Distance Learning
>>> Herberger College of the Arts
>>> Arizona State University
>>> http://herbergeronline.asu.edu
>>> 
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> Derrick Fogle
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> 
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