Re: convert special characters.

Hey anything is better than nothing. Thanks for the effort.
I will investigate this further. Did not know mysql_real_escape_string  
was depreciated.
Good to know.

Thank you!

Best,
Karl

On Aug 9, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Graham H. wrote:

> Not sure if this will work any better, but have you tried using  
> htmlspecialchars instead of htmlentities?  http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php
>
> You should also use mysqli_real_escape_string instead of the older  
> (and deprecated) mysql_real_escape_string. When you use the mysqli  
> you'll need to pass in a link to your database as the first  
> parameter, with the string to be escaped as the second. This will  
> also require you to use mysqli objects I'm pretty sure (which are  
> better to be using in the first place). See more about it here:  http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.real-escape-string.php
>
> Better than nothing? Sorry!
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Karl DeSaulniers  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 9, 2012, at 5:41 AM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 9, 2012, at 5:37 AM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
>
> Help!
>
> How do I get special characters to convert correctly when inserting  
> and reading from my database.
> For example.
>
> é => &eacute;
> ë => &euml;
>
> I keep getting
>
> ë and é
>
> using htmlentities, htmlspecialchars, etc...
>
> Any pointers? Please!
> Going bald over here.
>
> here is my funcitons
>
> function stringToMysqlFormat($original_input) {
>              //for inserting the data with special characters INTO  
> mysql
>              $html_encoded =  
> htmlentities(mysql_real_escape_string($original_input));
>              return $html_encoded;
> }
> function mysqlToHTMLFormat($encoded) {
>              //for displaying the data FROM mysql
>              $html_decoded =  
> html_entity_decode(stripslashes($encoded));
>              return $html_decoded;
> }
>
> TIA,
>
> Karl DeSaulniers
> Design Drumm
> http://designdrumm.com
>
>
>
> using UTF-8
>
>
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>
> No one?
> Not even a link I can go look this up myself with?
>
> I have successfuly converted before, but this time the company
> is in the netherlands and their special characters are doing this.
> Also, I have the database set to UTF-8, but when I check the charset:
>
> $charset = mysql_client_encoding($con);
>
> it returns latin1?
>
> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
> Not looking for someone to do it for me.
> Just some help figuring out which way to look.
>
> Why is htmlentities() converting wrong?
>
> Hope someone out there can help.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Karl DeSaulniers
> Design Drumm
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