Re: Convert Characters

Again, it's not the right list ... Reuben Sant wrote:

could someone please answer my first part of the question.. "Is there a way to convert any character to it's HTML &#xxx; equivalent in PHP?" I used to code in asp and I used "server.HtmlEncode" My problem is that I dont know what I have to use with php Thanks Again Reuben "Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg" <adam@trachtenberg.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.58.0403291150370.19638@miranda.org...

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Reuben Sant wrote:

I need to do this because I need to store Unicode Characters in a MySQL database.. This is because Unicode chars example &#365; use 2 bytes and

when

I try to store it, it appears as 2 separate nonsense characters in the

db.

Is there any different solution to my prob? Maybe I dont need to convert

the

chars.. Is there a way to instruct a MySQL database to accept unice characters?

This isn't the right list for this, but you should read: http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Charset.html And follow up on php-general if you have more questions. -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's php cookbook avoid the holiday rush, buy your copy today!