Question

I’m stuck with a stupid problem of encoding.

My problem is that all my accentuated characters are displayed as weird iso characters.

Example : é is displayed %E9

I send a string to my php file :

XMLLoader.load(new URLRequest(online+"/query.php?Query=" + q));
XMLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,XMLLoaded);

When I trace q, I get :

“INSERT INTO hello_world (message)
values(‘éàaà’);”

The GOOD query

My php file look like this :

<?php 

include("conection.php");//Conectiong to database

$Q = $_GET['Query'];

$query = $Q;
$resultID = mysql_query($query) or die("Could not execute or probably SQL statement malformed (error): ". mysql_error());

$xml_output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n"; // XML header
$xml_output .= "<answers>\n";

$xml_output .= "<lastID id=".'"'.mysql_insert_id().'"'." />\n";

$xml_output .= "<query string=".'"'.$query.'"'." />\n";

$xml_output .= "</answers>";

echo $xml_output;//Output the XML

?>

When I get back my XML into flash the $query looks like this :

“INSERT INTO hello_world (message)
values(‘%E9%E0a%E0’);”

And these values are then displayed into my DB which is annoying.

Any help would be appreciated! Cheers.

Jk_

Answer 1

My problem is now solved!

As andr wrote down above, it’s really a bad idea to use GET to send a queries.

It seems that when I sent the data from Flash using :

XMLLoader.load(new URLRequest(online+"/query.php?Query=" + q));

the URL was encoded and even with urldecode I got a blank entry in my DB.

So thanks to andr and raz-l I changed the way I send the data to my php file.

In flash I use URLVariables and in PHP I build my query:

variables = new URLVariables();
variables.Query = "éàûï ceci est un test...";
request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;         
request.data = variables;
XMLLoader.load(request);

And my php file looks like this :

$Q = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['Query']);
$query = "INSERT INTO hello_world (message) values ('".$Q."')";

Jk_