special characters

Tee-Eye

I've got a forum which is a flash swf, embedded in a php page and is powered by php.

The problem is that some users use characters like "&" instead of the word "and" when posting their messages. This makes the message and replies not to appear on the forum. You can see the message count but not the messages.

How do I make this and other characters appear so as to show the whole message and replies?

I think it's got to do with the following code:
$Message = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9 @.\/\%\'[]:\n\/\r ]", "", $Message);
$Message = str_replace("%2D", "-", $Message);

leatherback

Hi,
That is a bit tough to say without knowing your code / data storage system. But I suppose that using htmlentities on the posted string might help you: http://php.net/htmlentities and you may need to addslashes: www.php.net/addslashes

Tee-Eye

My data storage system at the moment is that of text files. Each new posting generates a new text file and a reply posting extends an existing text file.

I can see the whole message and replies in the text file but not on the swf message board.

Tee-Eye

I think it's an extra line of code I should include so that nothing gets replaced and all the special characters, that are user generated along with messages, show up in the forum and not get replaced or ignored.

The problem is that some users use characters like "&" instead of the word "and" when posting their messages. This makes the message and replies not to appear on the forum. You can see the message count but not the messages.

My data storage system at the moment is that of text files. Each new posting generates a new text file and a reply posting extends an existing text file.

I can see the whole message and replies in the text file but not on the swf message board.

How do I make it also show up on the swf message board?

The code used to replace is :
$Message = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9 @.\/\%\'[]:\n\/\r ]", "", $Message);
$Message = str_replace("%2D", "-", $Message);