I have a question about html decode.
I'm using WordPress' gravityforms plugin to manage forms. The formtitle includes the name of the website.
This week there was a bug in the special characters, the & sign was showing in the mailbox as & . I fixed this using html specialcharacters decode which was working great.
Later it appeared that there was a similar bug with the ' sign. Apparently html_specialcharacersdecode doesn't work with that one so I tried html_entities_decode as well, which also doesn't work for the ' sign.
Other signs are decoded perfectly such as < > () : -=+ so I don't really know what the problem is. I just want the ' to show as ' and not as '.
My code:
function before_email( $email ) {
$subject = htmlspecialchars_decode($email['subject']);
$subject = html_entity_decode($subject);
$email['subject'] = '$subject';
return $email;
}
My concrete question is: Is there something I'm missing here? Like maybe some function similar to the ones I've tried or is there something else going wrong?
Thanks!
You can use,
$subject = html_entity_decode($subject, ENT_QUOTES);
However, I would advise against HTML encoding before you insert it into the database. Just encode it when you output it. It's better just storing the raw data in the database.
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Pulling in data from a Filemaker Pro database field and trying to convert the plain text data from the field into a clickable link to google maps via PHP.
My first attempt doesnt display anything when called:
$Venue = '';
$Venue is then echoed into a UL via
<?php echo $Venue; ?>
I'm relatively new to PHP so I'm sure there is a much more semantic way of marking this up? Possibly a regex and replace, returning a preg_replace? Which is what I've been using for plain text URLs and email addresses.
Anything helps, thanks so much.
Casey - not sure there's enough context here to help you? For instance, forget the link wrapping, does
<?php echo $record->getField( 'Auctions::AIS_Venue'); ?>
actually echo the field contents to a page?
Also, not sure you really want to use nl2br anyway, as you probably don't want a break in your url ;-)
OK, in which case there are a couple of things to try. First - can you get it to run in a webviewer inside FileMaker? I suspect not, and it may be down to an encoding/filtering issue.
There are two approaches you could use.
Create a new calc field in FileMaker that filters out punctuation and converts spaces to '+'s, something like:
Filter( Substitute( Lower( Auctions::AIS_Venue ) ; [ ¶ ; "+"] ; [" " ; "+"]; ["++" ; "+"] ); "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890+" )
and then use that field as in your PHP code, or;
Do the same calculation on the fly in PHP, something like:
$Venue = '';
That should do the trick ? ;-)
I'm parsing html from a website using simplehtmldom_1_5, when i echo the parsed text to the screen it's printed correctly but when i try to save it to a file using file_put_contents i've my string coded to html decimal code :
(b. andersson, 
i've already tried all possible combination of utf8_encode, utf8_decode, htmlentities... but nothing worked, same problem when i try to insert to mysql table.
mb_detect_encoding for the parsed text returns ASCII.
Any suggestions ?
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
ini_set('max_execution_time', 0);
include 'simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php';
$html = file_get_html($curr_url);
$texts = $html->find('div[id=content_h]');
foreach($texts as $text) {
file_put_contents('queries.txt', $text->innertext . "\n", FILE_APPEND);
}
Did you also try html_entity_decode ( http://de1.php.net/html_entity_decode ) ?
Thats the function converting entities back to clear type text
*edit
I just tested this to verify it's working.
Yes it works, BUT:
your data is incorrect !
Every single entity is missing a semicolon at its end!
Thats why decoding only works in loose browser-render engines...
Your data shall be looking like this:
(b.
and not like this
(b.
See the difference?
Finally this worked for me
preg_replace('/&#(\d+)/me',"chr(\\1)", $text)
I am trying to do some htmlentities. However, the hyperlinks are now broken due to them being converted to the html codes, wanting to do this as for some stupid reason the university has given us all the same password for the servers.
Last year I almost failed as someone went onto my server and filled with the javascript and css hacks, so this will prevent it, however it's not much use if the hyperlink won't work, so how do I prevent this? Here's the code I have so far for this specific area:
$sub = substr($row['content'],0,300).'.......... See full article';
echo htmlentities($sub,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8");
If anyone can help, it's much appreciated, thanks.
I think you're applying htmlentities() on too much of your output. Just do it like this:
<?php echo htmlentities(substr($row['content'],0,300)).
'…See full article'; ?>
Don't apply htmlentities over the whole link, but on the values you actually want to escape, like this
$sub = htmlentities(substr($row['content'],0,300), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . '.......... See full article';
echo $sub;
I'm using a mailto link to send e-mail with a php string variable inside it as follows:
'Would you like to E-mail stakeholders? <a class="emailLink" href="mailto:stakeholders?subject=Alert '.$ticket.'&body=Experience: %0D%0A'.$exp.'">Review and Send!</a><br><br>';
I discovered that in the e-mail client it prints it out like:
Experience:
Th Experience should contain:\r\n\r\nImpact\r\nHow to replicate\r\nComprehensive notes
So I tried:
$charactersToRemove = array("\r\n","\n","\r");
$replaceWith = "%0D%0A";
$exp = str_replace($charactersToRemove,$replaceWith,$exp);
Which doesn't seem to make a difference...Can someone tell me why? Thanks.
Can you post more of your code to show how $exp was assigned it's value?
I've edited out my answer until I can provide better help.
EDIT: Can you seriously try using "\r\n" with \" to escape "'s instead, just in case PHP is somehow localizing %0D$0A in your HTML output? What does the source of your page look like?
When I grab the title from my Word Press posts in code and pass them around as email, the punctuation gets a bit mangled.
For example "TAMAGOTCHI P’S LOVE & MELODY SET" comes out as "TAMAGOTCHI P’S LOVE & MELODY SET".
Any ideas how I prevent this?
Let me know if you need to see the specific code I'm currently using. (I'm not really sure if this is a WordPress issue, or a PHP issue.
EDIT
What happens is that this title is passed to a form via the query string. Then when the form is submitted, I take the string from the form field and email it.
So I guess I need to decode the html either before I pass it into the form field, or else before I email it.
EDIT 2
Weird, so I looked closer at the code and I'm already doing a urldecode before I pass the value into the form field
jQuery('#product_name').val("<?php echo urldecode(strip_tags($_GET['pname'])); ?>
Is there some default encoding happening when you serialize (for ajax formhandler)
var dataString = $(this).serialize();
EDIT 3
OK turns out the code is more complex. Title is also passed to some kind of wordpress session before it's hits the form. I'll figure it out where exactly I need to put urldecode. Thanks!
This is one WordPress "feature" I could do without.
Here's one down-n-dirty method to get the fancy quotes (or other entities) replaced:
$title = get_the_title( get_the_ID() );
$title = str_replace( '’', "'", $title );
echo $title;
We could integrate deeper, by hooking into the_title, if you want this same de-entities functionality throughout the site. This code block would belong in your theme's functions.php file.
function reform_title($title, $id) {
$title = str_replace( '’', "'", $title );
return $title;
}
add_filter('the_title', 'reform_title', 10, 2);
Im not really sure about wordpress, but the issue itself its that the text its coming out as URLENCODE instead of a UTF-8 or other encode.
You have two options
When you receive the text you never turn it back to normal encoding (Which is weird as usually is de-encoded by php when you access the $_GET or $_POST variables)
You are parsing the message with the urlencode() function.