Re: PHP Pill

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 13:27 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hi Ash. > > > > Yes, windows XP, I believe. PHP Pill is a FileMaker plugin that > allows you to execute PHP from within your FM code. What I don't > understand is that the PHP regex should be removing ALL items not in > my regex list... it does so in FM on the Mac but not on the PC. But > the plugin is working as it is removing everthing... but gets tripped > on the trade mark symbol. I sent a side by side screen shot of the > fields on the mac and pc to your personal address. > > > > > > --Rick > > > > > > > On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:30 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > > > > > Hello all. > > > > > > I inquired about the problem below on a FM board but no one could > > > help. Hoping someone here may have an explanation or a workaround. > > > > > > I have PHP Pill installed on both a Mac and PC versions of FileMaker > > > 11. On the Mac, things behave as expected. On the PC, they do not. My > > > code is below: > > > > > > $old_string= 'Antique Houses™ Appointment Calendar'; > > > $find = '/[^a-z0-9]/i'; > > > $replace = ''; > > > $new_string = preg_replace($find, $replace, $old_string); > > > $new_string = trim($new_string, ""); > > > echo $new_string; > > > > > > So on the Mac, the above returns: > > > AntiqueHousesAppointmentCalendar > > > > > > vs. the PC returns: > > > AntiqueHousesTAppointmentCalendar > > > > > > Is there any reason the PC version of FM converts the TM symbol to a T > > > instead of removing as it should via regex? > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > --Rick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It sounds like somewhere along the line the character format isn't > > being observed. I'm not sure what PHP Pill is, and a quick Google > > for it brought up some odd results which didn't look like software! > > What happens when you output the string length on each system? I'm > > assuming you're using Windows on the PC, and not Linux, as that is > > where I've seen most issues with character encoding in the past. > > > > Thanks, > > Ash > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > > Well, I did suggest one thing that could be happening. What do both string lengths come to? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk