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From: Rick Dwyer on 17 Jul 2010 12:30 Hello all. I inquired about the problem below on a FM board but no one could help. Hoping someone here may have an explanation or a workaround. I have PHP Pill installed on both a Mac and PC versions of FileMaker 11. On the Mac, things behave as expected. On the PC, they do not. My code is below: $old_string= 'Antique Houses Appointment Calendar'; $find = '/[^a-z0-9]/i'; $replace = ''; $new_string = preg_replace($find, $replace, $old_string); $new_string = trim($new_string, ""); echo $new_string; So on the Mac, the above returns: AntiqueHousesAppointmentCalendar vs. the PC returns: AntiqueHousesTAppointmentCalendar Is there any reason the PC version of FM converts the TM symbol to a T instead of removing as it should via regex? Thanks. --Rick
From: Ashley Sheridan on 17 Jul 2010 12:34 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:30 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hello all. > > I inquired about the problem below on a FM board but no one could > help. Hoping someone here may have an explanation or a workaround. > > I have PHP Pill installed on both a Mac and PC versions of FileMaker > 11. On the Mac, things behave as expected. On the PC, they do not. My > code is below: > > $old_string= 'Antique Houses⢠Appointment Calendar'; > $find = '/[^a-z0-9]/i'; > $replace = ''; > $new_string = preg_replace($find, $replace, $old_string); > $new_string = trim($new_string, ""); > echo $new_string; > > So on the Mac, the above returns: > AntiqueHousesAppointmentCalendar > > vs. the PC returns: > AntiqueHousesTAppointmentCalendar > > Is there any reason the PC version of FM converts the TM symbol to a T > instead of removing as it should via regex? > Thanks. > > > --Rick > > > It sounds like somewhere along the line the character format isn't being observed. I'm not sure what PHP Pill is, and a quick Google for it brought up some odd results which didn't look like software! What happens when you output the string length on each system? I'm assuming you're using Windows on the PC, and not Linux, as that is where I've seen most issues with character encoding in the past. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
From: Rick Dwyer on 17 Jul 2010 13:27 Hi Ash. Yes, windows XP, I believe. PHP Pill is a FileMaker plugin that allows you to execute PHP from within your FM code. What I don't understand is that the PHP regex should be removing ALL items not in my regex list... it does so in FM on the Mac but not on the PC. But the plugin is working as it is removing everthing... but gets tripped on the trade mark symbol. I sent a side by side screen shot of the fields on the mac and pc to your personal address. --Rick On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:30 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: >> >> Hello all. >> >> I inquired about the problem below on a FM board but no one could >> help. Hoping someone here may have an explanation or a workaround. >> >> I have PHP Pill installed on both a Mac and PC versions of FileMaker >> 11. On the Mac, things behave as expected. On the PC, they do not. My >> code is below: >> >> $old_string= 'Antique Houses Appointment Calendar'; >> $find = '/[^a-z0-9]/i'; >> $replace = ''; >> $new_string = preg_replace($find, $replace, $old_string); >> $new_string = trim($new_string, ""); >> echo $new_string; >> >> So on the Mac, the above returns: >> AntiqueHousesAppointmentCalendar >> >> vs. the PC returns: >> AntiqueHousesTAppointmentCalendar >> >> Is there any reason the PC version of FM converts the TM symbol to >> a T >> instead of removing as it should via regex? >> Thanks. >> >> >> --Rick >> >> >> > > It sounds like somewhere along the line the character format isn't > being observed. I'm not sure what PHP Pill is, and a quick Google > for it brought up some odd results which didn't look like software! > What happens when you output the string length on each system? I'm > assuming you're using Windows on the PC, and not Linux, as that is > where I've seen most issues with character encoding in the past. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > >
From: Ashley Sheridan on 17 Jul 2010 13:29 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 13:27 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hi Ash. > > > > Yes, windows XP, I believe. PHP Pill is a FileMaker plugin that > allows you to execute PHP from within your FM code. What I don't > understand is that the PHP regex should be removing ALL items not in > my regex list... it does so in FM on the Mac but not on the PC. But > the plugin is working as it is removing everthing... but gets tripped > on the trade mark symbol. I sent a side by side screen shot of the > fields on the mac and pc to your personal address. > > > > > > --Rick > > > > > > > On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:30 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > > > > > Hello all. > > > > > > I inquired about the problem below on a FM board but no one could > > > help. Hoping someone here may have an explanation or a workaround. > > > > > > I have PHP Pill installed on both a Mac and PC versions of FileMaker > > > 11. On the Mac, things behave as expected. On the PC, they do not. My > > > code is below: > > > > > > $old_string= 'Antique Houses⢠Appointment Calendar'; > > > $find = '/[^a-z0-9]/i'; > > > $replace = ''; > > > $new_string = preg_replace($find, $replace, $old_string); > > > $new_string = trim($new_string, ""); > > > echo $new_string; > > > > > > So on the Mac, the above returns: > > > AntiqueHousesAppointmentCalendar > > > > > > vs. the PC returns: > > > AntiqueHousesTAppointmentCalendar > > > > > > Is there any reason the PC version of FM converts the TM symbol to a T > > > instead of removing as it should via regex? > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > --Rick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It sounds like somewhere along the line the character format isn't > > being observed. I'm not sure what PHP Pill is, and a quick Google > > for it brought up some odd results which didn't look like software! > > What happens when you output the string length on each system? I'm > > assuming you're using Windows on the PC, and not Linux, as that is > > where I've seen most issues with character encoding in the past. > > > > Thanks, > > Ash > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > > Well, I did suggest one thing that could be happening. What do both string lengths come to? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
From: Rick Dwyer on 17 Jul 2010 14:08
On Jul 17, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> >> > > Well, I did suggest one thing that could be happening. What do both > string lengths come to? On the PC, the length of variable old string is 44 and new string is 39 On the Mac, the length of varialbe old string is 44 and new string is 38. This is all happening inside of FileMaker... I will test the PHP code inside a web browser on both plaforms to see what happens. --Rick |