Forum Moderators: coopster
can anyone please help me with the following issue i have.
i have the script below, that basically creates article_summary.html from content taken through a form POST.
the problem i have is that when i fill in the form. If i put english characters, then it works fine. But if i put UTF-8 characters, such as Arabic, the whole thing messes up and messes up the article_X.html file.
can anyone please have a look at this code below and advise me on how i can incorporate UTF-8 into it, so that when i post Arabic or any UTF-8 characters in the form, it accepts it.
many thanks in advanced
any help would very much be appreciated
<?
include ("template.inc");
include ("config.php");
$subject = $_POST[subject];
$summary = $_POST[summary];
$passwd = $_POST[passwd];
$date = $_POST[date];
$body = $_POST[body];
$article_id = $_POST[article_id];
#foreach($GLOBALS as $a => $b){print "<li>$a => $b";}
$summary_template = "t_summary.html";
$article_template = "t_article.html";
$max_summary = 5;
function summary_page ($subject, $date, $summary, $article_id)
{
global $summary_template;
$t = new Template();
$t->set_file("SummaryPage", $summary_template);
$article_url = "article_".$article_id.".html";
$date = nl2br($date);
$summary = nl2br($summary);
$t->set_var( array(
"subject" => $subject,
"date" => $date,
"summary" => $summary,
"article_url" => $article_url
));
$t->parse("Summary", "SummaryPage");
return $t->get_var("Summary");
}
function main_page ($subject, $date, $summary, $article_id, $body)
{
global $article_template;
$t = new Template();
$t->set_file("ArticlePage", $article_template);
$article_url = "article_".$article_id.".html";
$date = nl2br($date);
$summary = nl2br($summary);
$body = nl2br($body);
$t->set_var( array(
"subject" => $subject,
"date" => $date,
"summary" => $summary,
"body" => $body,
"article_url" => $article_url
));
$t->parse("Article", "ArticlePage");
return $t->get_var("Article");
}
function add_article($filename, $news)
{
if(file_exists($filename)){
$fh = fopen($filename, "r");
$old_news = fread($fh, filesize($filename));
fclose($fh);
}
/* TODO: Multipage articles
preg_match_all("<!--ARTICLE PAGE=(\d*)-->", $old_news, $matches;
if( count($matches[0]) >= $max_summary){
$oldfilename = $filename.($matches[0][0]+1);
}
*/
$fh = fopen($filename, "w");
$news = stripslashes($news);
fwrite($fh, "\n<!--ARTICLE-->\n$news $old_news");
fclose($fh);
}
if(strcmp($subject, "")){
if(!(strcmp($passwd, $password))){
add_article("article_summary.html", summary_page($subject, $date, $summary, $article_id));
add_article("article_$article_id.html", main_page($subject, $date, $summary, $article_id, $body));
echo "<p> <a href=article_$article_id.html>Article</a> has been added! <p>";
}else{
echo "<p><b> Password is wrong! </b>";
}
}
?>
<form action="news.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<table border=0>
<tr> <td> (Password): </td><td> <input type=password name=passwd size=20> </td></tr>
<tr> <td> Headline: </td><td> <input type=text name=subject size=66> </td></tr>
<tr> <td> Body: </td><td> <textarea name=body rows=15 cols=50></textarea> </td></tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="article_id" value="<? echo date("Y_m_j_is");?>">
<input type="hidden" name="date" value="<? echo date("M j, Y");?>">
<input type="hidden" name="summary" value="">
<input type=submit name=submit value=Add>
</form>
