I was able to copy and paste from the customer's email exactly what they
were trying to submit. When I back-spaced out their single quote and
put in my own, it worked fine. That's how I narrowed it down to that
particular character. With much help from a coworker, I was able to
implement some functions, and call them BEFORE php tries to create the
new record in the database. That was my biggest problem ... I put the
cleanup code in the wrong place, after the new record command. However,
here's what the function looks like (it also gets out ~'s:
function convert_smart_quotes($string)
{
$search = array(chr(145),
chr(146),
chr(147),
chr(148),
chr(151));
$replace = array("'",
"'",
'"',
'"',
'-');
return str_replace($search, $replace, $string); }
-----Original Message-----
From: Instruct ICC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:54 PM
To: php-db@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] php maximum characters in text field
> Does anyone know how to look for a "Curly quote" or "typographer's
quotation mark". They are being submitted on our form under customer
description. I have created a function that replaces a regular straight
quotation mark ($title = str_replace("'", "", $title);), but do not know
what to put in as the "look for" for the curly mark!
How do you know they are submitting ?
Can you copy from that source, then paste it into your str_replace
function?
Or since it seems to be a two-byte character (I didn't see it at
asciitable.com):
Maybe you need http://php.he.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php
mb_ereg_replace
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