[FX.php List] Switch of web host - HTML special chars strippedfrom FX output (FMU6)

Ben Bradley ben.bradley at dealer-world.com
Mon Jun 1 06:53:06 MDT 2009


Dang, sorry. Copy and pasted without thinking.

NEW: http://dealer-world.net/phpinfo.php
OLD: http://dealer-world.com/phpinfo.php
 

Thanks, B


-----Original Message-----
From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Leo R.
Lundgren
Sent: 01 June 2009 13:51
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Switch of web host - HTML special chars
strippedfrom FX output (FMU6)

Can you provide the old and new phpinfo() again please, they seem to  
be the same URL.

1 jun 2009 kl. 13.42 skrev Ben Bradley:

> Hi everyone
>
> Right I've now done some further tests on the new and old providers  
> and there is something different about the outputs from FX.php
>
> On the new provider the HTML special chars are removed from all  
> fields. Completely removed, not replaced with anything.
>
> On the old provider the HTML special chars are returned correctly.
> Not converted to entities but returned in their raw format suitable  
> for rendering as HTML tags without any further processing.
>
>
> I've found there are some differences in various libraries between  
> the new/old providers. cURL and various XML libraries appear to be  
> slightly different
>
> NEW: http://dealer-world.net/phpinfo.php
> OLD: http://dealer-world.net/phpinfo.php
>
> I had a look through the cURL changelog
http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html 
>  and couldn't see anything that would cause any difference in  
> operation.
>
> What (if any) XML libraries does FX.php use?
> I will have a dig through those changelogs
>
>
> On the new provider, when I make a manual PHP cURL call to a test  
> page the HTML gets returned correctly as expected.
>
> Anyone else got any ideas as to why this is happening?
> It's driving me a bit crazy!
>
> Thanks, Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Bradley
> Sent: 31 May 2009 13:24
> To: 'FX.php Discussion List'
> Subject: RE: [FX.php List] Switch of web host - HTML special chars  
> stripped from FX output (FMU6)
>
> Correction:
> I think I was uploading to an incorrect address.
>
> When I run a curl call on the FMP XML data URL on the new  
> provider... the XML gets returned with all special chars in the  
> fields replaced with their HTML entities... > < " etc
>
> When I run the exact same CURL call on the old provider, exactly the  
> same output.
> I assume the > < is what FMU6 returns and not some processing  
> by FX.php
>
> When I run a CURL call on the new provider to a regular HTML page,  
> the HTML gets returned as expected... With no special chars removed.
>
> So it seems CURL might not be the culprit after all.
> Or at least the default CURL options in my custom get_webpage()  
> function
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
> Sent: 31 May 2009 12:35
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Switch of web host - HTML special chars  
> stripped from FX output (FMU6)
>
> Are you running Mac workstation?
>
> I would do a print_r( $result ); of your problem query.
>
> and copy the URL part of the array
>
> and open terminal, type the following
>
> curl <<pasteTheUrl>>
>
> ggt
>
> 2009/5/31 Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <ggt667 at gmail.com>:
>> So there is a different FMU6 in this case?
>>
>> ggt
>>
>> 2009/5/31 Ben Bradley <ben.bradley at dealer-world.com>:
>>> Hi
>>> I'm using the same version of FX.php as I was on the old hosting  
>>> provider... Which was working fine.
>>> I basically uploaded an identical copy of the site to the new  
>>> provider
>>>
>>> What version should I try?
>>> At the moment I'm using 4.5.1
>>>
>>> Cheers, Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org 
>>> ] On Behalf Of Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
>>> Sent: 31 May 2009 01:03
>>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Switch of web host - HTML special chars  
>>> stripped from FX output (FMU6)
>>>
>>> Ahh, FMU6
>>>
>>> Did you try an old version of FX.php? One that corresponds to  
>>> FMU6, i e
>>>
>>> ggt
>>>
>>> 2009/5/30 Ben Bradley <ben.bradley at dealer-world.com>:
>>>> PHP headers and meta charset are both UTF-8
>>>> It appears special chars are just completely removed. The rest of  
>>>> the content is fine!
>>>>
>>>> If I try and get any records from the CMS database using a  
>>>> completely plain test script, then the same thing happens.
>>>>
>>>> It's not just this field either, if I put special chars (< > or  
>>>> ") in any other field, they also get removed
>>>> So the tag name, contents, attributes and values etc are all  
>>>> preserved, just without the <>" in there!
>>>>
>>>> Strangeness!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, B
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org 
>>>> ] On Behalf Of Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
>>>> Sent: 30 May 2009 13:56
>>>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>>>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Switch of web host - HTML special  
>>>> chars stripped from FX output (FMU6)
>>>>
>>>> And what is your charset in the header of your documents?
>>>>
>>>> Are the characters just removed? or replaced with some other chars?
>>>>
>>>> ggt
>>>>
>>>> 2009/5/29 Ben Bradley <ben.bradley at dealer-world.com>:
>>>>> Hi everyone
>>>>> I've just switched hosting provider and there appears to be a  
>>>>> difference in
>>>>> their PHP configurations.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the new provider any HTML special chars are getting  
>>>>> automatically
>>>>> removed from my FX.php output... causing HTML tags in my  
>>>>> FileMaker website
>>>>> content management system to get printed out as text.
>>>>> Less than, greater than and quote marks are just removed; not  
>>>>> replaced with
>>>>> anything else.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have basically copied the entire site over to the new provider  
>>>>> and I've
>>>>> never seen this problem before.
>>>>>
>>>>> The old provider was running PHP 5.2.6
>>>>> The new provider is running PHP 5.2.5
>>>>>
>>>>> One thing I did notice is the new provider has magic_quotes_gpc  
>>>>> set to On in
>>>>> the phpinfo()
>>>>> It was Off on the old provider.
>>>>> But that shouldn't make any difference to the output of FX,  
>>>>> should it?
>>>>> magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_sybase are set to Off on  
>>>>> the old and
>>>>> new providers.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running FileMaker Unlimited 6 with custom web publishing.  
>>>>> There's
>>>>> nothing that's changed on the CDML format files.
>>>>> When I call up the site in the old host, everything is still fine!
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone experience this error before or can think of any config  
>>>>> things to
>>>>> try?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've done a few tests... CURL calls are fine... no HTML special  
>>>>> chars
>>>>> removed there!
>>>>> Also if I set a bunch of HTML code into a variable, and echo  
>>>>> that variable
>>>>> out again the HTML special chars are preserved so the tags get  
>>>>> rendered.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas / suggestions?
>>>>> This has been driving me nuts this afternoon!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers, B
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