Re: [PHP] getting rid of bad characters

2005-10-31 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, October 31, 2005 9:30 am, Dan McCullough wrote: > I having been looking for some snippet to help me with changing MS > Word double, quotes, single quotes and other characters to acceptable > HTML safe characters. The problem comes about when the people using > the forms paste large article

Re: [PHP] getting rid of bad characters

2005-10-31 Thread Chris Shiflett
Dan McCullough wrote: I having been looking for some snippet to help me with changing MS Word double, quotes, single quotes and other characters to acceptable HTML safe characters. This seems to work: $search = array('/[\x07\x95]/', '/\x85/', '/[\x91\x92]/',

Re: [PHP] getting rid of bad characters

2005-10-31 Thread tg-php
Have you tried using htmlentities()? It should convert stuff like double-quotes (") to it's associated HTML entity which, when echo'd to the browser, will be displayed as " again. Good for safe output. Not so good for storing in a database (which you'd probably want to use whatever your datab

[PHP] getting rid of bad characters

2005-10-31 Thread Dan McCullough
I having been looking for some snippet to help me with changing MS Word double, quotes, single quotes and other characters to acceptable HTML safe characters. The problem comes about when the people using the forms paste large articles from Word into the form, I do a normal check and add slashes b