[FX.php List] Filed name of the dial

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

You will benefit from not using characters outside A-Za-z0-9 in your fieldnames,
if you would like to go on and develop, opposed to fight with
character sets, i e.

The content of the fields however can easily be whatever.

ggt

2009/10/27 David Ness <dness at bondedbuilders.com>:
> Of course, for those of us not used to typing characters with umlauts and other special characters, why not just use your editor to do a 'global' search and replace, replacing 'ä' with 'a', etc, etc.
>
> As long as you're confident that the previous developer didn't have use both variable names 'Vol_Länge' and 'Vol_Lange' (who would do such a crazy thing?), you should be okay, no?
>
>
> David Allen Ness
> Database Systems Administrator
> Web Applications Developer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of William Downs
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:00 AM
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> Subject: [FX.php List] Filed name of the dial
>
> Hi there -
>
> I have inherited a database with special characters in the field names
> (in this case below the umlaut !)
>
> example part of query = $new_job->AddDBParam('Vol_Länge',$VolL);
>
> where oh where do I fix this ?
>
> Returns an error 958
>
> I tried $new_job->AddDBParam(utf8_decode('Vol_Länge'),$VolL); - of
> course it came back with error 102
>
> Great stuff - someone was thinking hard when they stuck this together :-)
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Kindest Regards
>
> William
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