Re: First stupid post of the year. [SOLVED]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 19:36:56 -0500, tedd wrote: > To find out, I did put the operation through FireFox and reversed the > POST/GET operations to get a look at the string -- it is: > > %C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0Z%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0 < where Z is the value passed. > > Now, C2 (HEX) is a linefeed (194 DEC) > > And, A0 (HEX) is a non-breaking space (160 DEC;) which is a &nbsp; Not quite. <A0> is non-breaking space in *some* character encodings, such as the ISO-8859-... encodings. It may be different in other encodings. In UTF-8, it is <C2 A0>, which is exactly what you're seing. > Therefore, if I simply use: > > $submit = str_replace( chr(194), '', $submit ); > $submit = str_replace( chr(160), '', $submit ); > > This is the solution. Hardly. > Now, why does a POST operation add in C2's? I'll leave that for > another post. :-) I haven't had time to look at the code, but perhaps you need to specify a character encoding for the page. /Nisse