[FX.php List] Filed name of the dial

[william.downs]

I have no say in the matter - I have inherited it, and there are  
other systems using the DB -

William

On 27 Oct 2009, at 13:03, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> 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
>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>> 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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