Htmlentities and £ sign

Anon

This code works and displays the £ sign correctly:

<?php
$feescharged=nl2br(mysql_result($result,$counter,"feerange"));
$feescharged=htmlentities($feescharged);
echo $feescharged ?>

This code, looks identical to me:

<?php
$thisrate=nl2br(mysql_result($result,$counter,"rates"));
$thisrate=htmlentities($thisrate);
echo $thisrate;?>

but instead of a £ sign, display a ,

!!!

Can anyone help me with a reason for this happening?

Regards

Elizabeth

gushy

I'm suprised the first displays anything as you've forgotten to add a semi-colon after the echo statement. 🙂

The code looks the same other than that.

Can you post your query ($result) and table structure?

I don't use htmlentities(), but at a guess I'd say that maybe the data in your database is stored incorrectly.

What browser are you using? does it usually interpret html entities for comma's (, and &#130😉 and pound signs (&#163😉 ok?

-- Nick Gushlow

jc94062

I'm not sure what the problem here is exactly, I know on a lot of site £ always seems to appear as J...

However, I just tried a few methods...

<body>
<p>Pound: £</p>
<?php echo "Pound: £"; ?>
<?php echo "Pound: /'£/'"; ?>
</body>

All 3 pound signs were displayed fine...
IE 5 here, so I dunno why I normally get J signs...
Its not the .php extention, naming the file as a .htm one just doesn't show the PHP, still gives me Pound: £ fine...