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

Leo R. Lundgren leo at finalresort.org
Mon Jun 1 13:19:37 MDT 2009 

Great! Sounds like a decent hosting company, at least assuming nothing  
else broke with the update :-)


1 jun 2009 kl. 20.33 skrev Ben Bradley:

> 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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