[RESOLVED] Please Help A Novice With GB £ sign problem

[billyphillips]

Hope someone can help a php novice.
When my php contact form is received the £ sign appears like this £

I have spent a long time trying to find a solution to the problem and several sites have suggested adding the following code to my form:

<?php header('Content-Type: text/html; Charset=UTF-8'); ?>

(In my html head I have the following code <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />)

I've tried to add the suggested php header and it doesn't seem to make a difference - maybe because I have added it in the wrong place?

My form reads as follows:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {


$email_to = "[e-mail]";
$email_subject = "Property Rental";



   function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
        echo "These errors appear below.<br><br>";
        echo $error."<br><br>";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br><br>";
        die();
    }

// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
    !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
    !isset($_POST['email']) ||
    !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
    !isset($_POST['beds']) ||
	!isset($_POST['cost']) ||
	!isset($_POST['comments'])) {
    died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       
}

$first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
$last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // not required
$telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // required
$beds = $_POST['beds']; // required
$cost = $_POST['cost']; // required
$comments = $_POST['comments']; // required

$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
  if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br>';
  }
    $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br>';
  }
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br>';
  }
  if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
    $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br>';
  }
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
    died($error_message);
  }
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";

function clean_string($string) {
  $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
  return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}

$email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
$email_message .= "Bedrooms Required: ".clean_string($job)."\n";
$email_message .= "Monthly Budget: ".clean_string($cost)."\n";
$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";


// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
$headers .= "Cc: [e-mail] \r\n";
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  

?>

If I've phrased the question badly or have not given enough information please let me know - and excuse me.

If anyone can help me to make whatever changes are necessary and advise me as to where I should add anything to the form to sort this problem out I would be very grateful.

Thanks

[Weedpacket]

 <?php header('Content-Type: text/html; Charset=UTF-8'); ?>

That would work if you were sending an HTTP response (that's what [man]header[/man] is for). But since you're sending an email it won't be any use. In your case you'd add the line with your other headers (in the $headers variable)

$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; Charset=UTF-8\r\n";

Or write it as [font=monospace]&pound;[/font]. Or [font=monospace]&#163;[/font].

[billyphillips]

Thanks so much Weedpacket.
I took the first option and it works perfectly!
I wish I'd come to this board sooner!

Billy