|
| |
|
|
emtohio
Posts: 116
Joined: 2/23/2006
From: Dave Stevens
Status: offline
 |
PHP Question - 6/8/2009 19:45:45
I operate an EMS Job Website and had someone build a database for me. When posting a job to our website;
http://www.fieldmedicsjobs.com/forms/postjob.htm
In the text area to describe the job I guess the employers are just cut and pasting from another document. I get all kinds of crazy symbols when its posted to the site; example
A dispatcher’s responsibility
and
• Experience in ambulance dispatching.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Experience with customer service.
I am assuming they were suposeed to be bullets but not sure, as for the first example I have no idea what caused it.
I am not very good with PHP yet so what I have come up with so far is just to disable the HTML in the text area
I have found this code <textarea onchange="this.disabled = true"></textarea>
But it does not seem to work. Where ever I put it it knocks out my drop down menu for my States in the form.
Can anyone help me or tell me what I should do or what I am doing wrong?
_____________________________
Dave Stevens
President
FIELDMEDICS.COM
|
|
|
|
ppruck
Posts: 3
Joined: 6/9/2009
Status: offline
|
RE: PHP Question - 6/9/2009 2:00:30
this should remove non ascii chars from a string :
<?php
$string = "place the string you need to clear here";
$string = preg_replace('/[^(\x20-\x7F)]*/','', $string);
?>
i did test it on the examples you gave and it removed the unwanted ones no problem.
| |
|
|
|
Giomanach
Posts: 6187
Joined: 11/19/2003
From: England
Status: offline
|
RE: PHP Question - 6/9/2009 13:56:27
I'll explain on ppruck's answer a little more.
PHP uses non-ascii characters to parse information, to perform certain actions. If these are found in query criteria, it will change them to something it understands better - not always what is wanted. Using the code ppruck provided you remove that problem by "replacing" it with something else, meaning the PHP won't produce funky characters ;)
_____________________________
| |
|
|
|
emtohio
Posts: 116
Joined: 2/23/2006
From: Dave Stevens
Status: offline
|
RE: PHP Question - 6/11/2009 11:12:35
Where do I add this in the code. I added it to the page and it still get this on a test post.
-----------------
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
• Rrrrrrrrrrr
• Tttttttttttt
• Yyyyyyyyyyyy
• Uuuuuuuuuuuu
• Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
/> Uuuuuuuuugfh
Gf
Hfgh
f
---------------------------
this is what I posted
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
• Rrrrrrrrrrr
• Tttttttttttt
• Yyyyyyyyyyyy
• Uuuuuuuuuuuu
• Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Uuuuuuuuugfh
Gf
Hfgh
f
thanks for the help.
_____________________________
Dave Stevens
President
FIELDMEDICS.COM
| |
|
 New Messages |
 No New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/ New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/o New Messages |
 Locked w/ New Messages |
 Locked w/o New Messages |
|
Post New Thread
Reply to Message
Post New Poll
Submit Vote
Delete My Own Post
Delete My Own Thread
Rate Posts
|
|
|
Printable Version 