I have a pHP script that processes an order form on my site. The problem I have is when someone fills out the order form using say a polish character set I get stuff like this come through

Szántó

Any Idea how I can correct this?

Thanks for looking.

Simon

You don't want those characters?

Originally posted by Saeven
You don't want those characters?

Sorry....the forum software has corrected it. It was:

S z & a a c u t e ; n t & o a c u t e ;

Remove the spaces. What the forum software did is actually what I would like my Form processor to do and that is to correct these characters so I can actually read them.

Any ideas?

Simon

Originally posted by SimonMc
Sorry....the forum software has corrected it. It was:

S z & a a c u t e ; n t & o a c u t e ;

Remove the spaces. What the forum software did is actually what I would like my Form processor to do and that is to correct these characters so I can actually read them.

Any ideas?

Simon

There is a bug in your script, it's doing htmlspecialchars/htmlentities or a varient thereof twice on the same data somewhere.

Originally posted by gogocode
There is a bug in your script, it's doing htmlspecialchars/htmlentities or a varient thereof twice on the same data somewhere.

I have this entry but only once:

$body .= htmlentities($_POST['email']);

Does this give a clue? I do not have htmlspecialchars anbywhere.

Simon

hi there,

you must check htmlspecialchars in your script


Regards
webshome

Originally posted by webshome
hi there,

you must check htmlspecialchars in your script


Regards
webshome

How do I add that to my script. Sorry, I am a bit of a hack not a programmer. I can insert code in the right place as long as I know what and where :)

Any help appreciated.

Simon

If I add:

$body .= htmlentities/htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']);

Is this correct or should it be:


$body .= htmlentities($_POST['email']);
$body .= htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']);

Thanks for looking :)

Simon