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

Ben Bradley ben.bradley at dealer-world.com
Mon Jun 1 12:33:56 MDT 2009 

Hi Leo/Everyone

Our hosting provider updated PHP to the latest stable (5.2.9) which
fixed this issue!
Thank you so much Leo for tracking that PHP bug down!

Hope this helps someone else out!

Cheers, B

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Bradley 
Sent: 01 June 2009 16:59
To: 'FX.php Discussion List'
Subject: RE: [FX.php List] Switch of web host - HTML special
charsstrippedfrom FX output (FMU6)

Hi Leo

That's it! That has to be it!! Excellent digging sir!
The behaviour in that bug report is exactly what I'm experiencing. First
time I've ever stumbled into a PHP bug like that.

I guess normally that would be fine, just Spry are using a slightly
older version of PHP which contains this bug.
I've contacted them to see if there's anything they're willing to
upgrade PHP (not holding my breath)

Thanks for the info, and I'll get back on how this turns out!

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 Leo R.
Lundgren
Sent: 01 June 2009 15:50
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Switch of web host - HTML special
charsstrippedfrom FX output (FMU6)

Ben,

Have a look at
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-December/01283
4.html 
  .


1 jun 2009 kl. 14.53 skrev Ben Bradley:

> 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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