[FX.php List] special characters and fm

Thu Sep 13 11:37:46 MDT 2007

Hi Alicia - 

You are missing </form> on your form named "program" - 
That could, possibly, explain some goofiness.
Maybe not.
But, you should close it anyway.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org [mailto:fx.php_list-
> bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Alicia M. Cosenza
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:21 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: RE: [FX.php List] special characters and fm
> 
> Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions.  I am using Dreamweaver
> for an editor.  I changed the settings and resaved my documents but it
> still isn't cooperating.
> 
> I put it through a couple sites that check headers (found here:
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-headers-charset ) and
> they all spit the content-type at me as: Content-Type:text/html.
> 
> This is the page:
> http://www.dso.ufl.edu/nsp/parents/familyweekend/booth/
> If you view the source you can of course see the header.
> 
> The form submits ok when I do not use any pasted characters but just
> in case:
> 
> //make new record for entry
> $addMember = new FX(xip, xport);
> $addMember->SetDBData('xDB', 'xLayout');
> $addMember->SetDBPassword('xx', 'xx');
> 
> //add info
> $addMember->AddDBParam('Sponsor', $sponsor);
> $addMember->AddDBParam('Contact Name', $cname);
> $addMember->AddDBParam('Contact Email', $cemail);
> $addMember->AddDBParam('Contact Phone', $cphone);
> $addMember->AddDBParam('Booth Title', $title);
> $addMember->AddDBParam('Booth Description', $desc);
> $addMember->AddDBParam('Special Needs', $special);
> 
> //add result
> $addResult = $addMember->FMNew();
> 
> Really nothing fancy :).  I will continue trying to figure this out.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Alicia Cosenza
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Troy Meyers
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:02 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: RE: [FX.php List] special characters and fm
> 
> Alicia,
> 
> The Parameter Missing error is one of the symptoms of not using:
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> 
> I always put it in the <HEAD> section, not just at the top of the
> page, like this:
> 
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> <title>My Page Name</title>
> 
> ......
> 
> Are you using Dreamweaver? It puts its own in too, so if you have
> both, there might be a problem. Take a look at the code.
> 
> I don't have to deal with the "both" problem now, the right thing is
> put in a newly created page, because I changed the Preferences in
> Dreamweaver. Look under Preferences, and find the "New Document"
> panel. For Default Encoding select the dropdown menu item "Unicode 4.0
> UTF-8"
> 
> WHATEVER EDITOR you are using, the META tag isn't enough, it also
> needs to be SAVED using the correct encoding. For example, for BBEdit,
> it's "UnicodeTM (UTF-8, no BOM)" which is selectable in one of the
> popup menus at the bottom of the window.
> 
> Maybe that helps?
> 
> -Troy
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Unfortunately it did not :(.
> >
> > I would have loved it if it would have.  The error code I am getting
> is
> > 958.  I think you are right though that it is something to do with
> > encoding since the text that is returned in place of the characters
> is
> > nonsense.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> > Alicia Cosenza
> 
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