PHP messing with HTML Charset Encoding

Question 1

I have this very strange problem. I have a site that contains some German letters and when it's only html without php the symbols are property displayed with encoding when i change it to UTF-8 they dont display and instead of Ö I get ?. When I put the html inside php and start it with Zend studio on Wamp with the charset=iso-8859-1 encoding I get ï¿½ instead of Ö ( I want to add that this same Ö is a value of a radio button). When it's in a

tag it displays properly. Can you tell me how to fix this issue. I look at other sites and they have UTF-8 Encoding and displaying properly the same symbol. I tried to change the php edior encoding but it doesn't matter I suppose -> everything is displaying properly inside Zend Studio's editor... Thank you in advance.

Question 2

You have probably come to mix encoding types. For example. A page that is sent as iso-8859-1, but get UTF-8 text encoding from MySQL or XML would typically fail.

To solve this problem you must keep control on input ecodings type in relation to the type of encoding you have chosen to use internal.

If you send it as an iso-8859-1, your input from the user is also iso-8859-1.

header("Content-type:text/html; charset: iso-8859-1");

And if mysql sends latin1 you do not have to do anything.

But if your input is not iso-8859-1 you must converted it, before it's sending to the user or to adapt it to Mysql before it's store.

mb_convert_encoding($text, mb_internal_encoding(), 'UTF-8'); // If it's UTF-8 to internal encoding

Short it means that you must always have input converted to fit internal encoding and convereter output to match the external encoding.

This is the internal encoding I have chosen to use.

mb_internal_encoding('iso-8859-1'); // Internal encoding

This is a code i use.

mb_language('uni'); // Mail encoding
mb_internal_encoding('iso-8859-1'); // Internal encoding
mb_http_output('pass'); // Skip

function convert_encoding($text, $from_code='', $to_code='')
{
    if (empty($from_code))
    {
        $from_code = mb_detect_encoding($text, 'auto');
        if ($from_code == 'ASCII')
        {
            $from_code = 'iso-8859-1';
        }
    }

    if (empty($to_code))
    {
        return mb_convert_encoding($text, mb_internal_encoding(), $from_code);
    }
    return mb_convert_encoding($text, $to_code, $from_code);
}

function encoding_html($text, $code='')
{
    if (empty($code))
    {
        return htmlentities($text, ENT_NOQUOTES, mb_internal_encoding());
    }

    return mb_convert_encoding(htmlentities($text, ENT_NOQUOTES, $code), mb_internal_encoding(), $code);
}
function decoding_html($text, $code='')
{
    if (empty($code))
    {
        return html_entity_decode($text, ENT_NOQUOTES, mb_internal_encoding());
    }

    return mb_convert_encoding(html_entity_decode($text, ENT_NOQUOTES, $code), mb_internal_encoding(), $code);
}

Question 3

On a Linux system, if you are sure all files are currently encoded in ISO-8859-7, you can do this:

bash> find /your/path -name "*.php" -type f 
    -exec iconv "{}" -f ISO88597 -t UTF8 -o "{}.tmp" ; 
    -exec mv "{}.tmp" "{}" ;

This converts all PHP script files located in /your/path as well as all sub-directories. Remove -name "*.php" to convert all files.

Since you are under Windows, the easiest option would be a PHP script like this:

<?php
$path = realpath('C:\your\path');

$iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
    new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path), 
    RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST
);

foreach($iterator as $fileName => $file){
    if($file->isFile())
        file_put_contents(
            $fileName,
            iconv('ISO-8859-7', 'UTF-8', file_get_contents($fileName))
        );
}

Question 4

I'm not sure that the ' wrapping the charset are necessary, or even correct. Try removing them:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Question 5

Use cURL. This function is an alternative to file_get_contents.

function url_get_contents($Url) {
if (!function_exists('curl_init')){
    die('CURL is not installed!');
}
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
}
$data = url_get_contents("http://www.bratm.sk/trochu-harlem-inspiracie-zaslite-nam-svoj-super-harlem-shake-ak-bude-husty-zverejnime-ho/");
print_r($data);

Question 6

index.php expects the displayFood() method to return a string, which it concatenates to the HTML and then prints. But displayFood() is echoing its results instead of returning them as a string.

So you have to either change displayFood() to return a string, or change index.php to print the beginning HTML, call displayFood(), and then print the ending HTML, e.g.

echo '

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
...
<div id="breadcrumbs">
';

$poc->displayFood();

echo '

</div>
</div>





<div id="footer">
&copy 2014 - FoodManagement
</div>


</body>
</html>';

PHP messing with HTML Charset Encoding

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