big problem in AJAX

zedan_80

Hallo

i have a big problem in AJAX , its not supporting Arabic

i tried to fill combo by clicking a radio button using AJAX but the combo filled with unknown data

here is AJAX functions

//The POST method AJAX
function post_method(t){
var data = t.value;
request.open('post', 'our_real_estate_code.php');
request.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
request.onreadystatechange = output;
request.send('data='+data);//variable will be stored in post array
}

here is my php code page

if(isset($_POST['data'])){
	$qry = $_POST['data'];
	if($qry == 2)
		$qry = "select id , name from real_estate_type where lang = $lang";
	elseif($qry == 1)
		$qry = "select id , name from real_estate_type_lands where lang = $lang";

	Fill_Combo($qry ,'real_type' , '' , '' , '' ,'');



}

PLZ i need help as soon as possible :bemused:

bogu

And if u create that listbox with the arabic content, it is showing OK?

BTW, that has nothing to do with ajax (xmlhttprequest) , maybe your header character set doesnt support arabic content ...

vaaaska

I bet javascript is borking on the chars...encode them with urlencode() or something and see hot it goes.

zedan_80

i have 3 combos alll in arabic but filled by PHP code the only 1 i tried to use AJAX with is not working

so if no solution i will change my code to fill combo from PHP code

vaaaska

You may need to encode your chards BEFORE they go into Ajax (javascript). I've had the same problems dealing with accented chars being sent via ajax to php...

zedan_80

how can i encode my chars before send it to ajax function?

MarkR

There is a javascript function "encodeURIComponent" which urlencodes a string in UTF8. Javascript itself uses Unicode internally to store strings.

Your application should of course be in UTF8 throughout - if it isn't, rewrite it so that it is.

So just use encodeURIComponent.

Then you can get the values out of $POST (or $GET if you did a GET) in PHP, and they'll be in UTF8, just how you want them.

Mark