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Re: Rejecting Certain Non-ASCII Characters [message #181172 is a reply to message #181155] Fri, 19 April 2013 22:06 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jim Higgins is currently offline  Jim Higgins
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:38:02 +0200, in
<kkrvda$od5$1(at)speranza(dot)aioe(dot)org>, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69(at)gmx(dot)de>
wrote:

> Jim Higgins wrote:
>> I have a problem with people entering a slashed zero vs a standard
>> ASCII zero into HTML forms intended to store data in a MySQL database.
>
> Is it really a slashed zero (U+0030 U+0338) they're entering, or do they
> enter some similar looking character such as the Danish Ø? In the
> former case you can simply replace the slashed zero with a standard
> zero. Assuming UTF-8 encoding:
>
> $input = str_replace('\xCC\xB8', '', $input);


It's usually 0x41 0x7E, but sometimes 0xD8. Rather than do
replacement I'd just like to detect and give them an error message
telling them to use their keyboard zero vs Alt Key plus numeric pad to
create special characters.


>> Is there a simple way in PHP to restrict input to the ASCII Character
>> set, specifically hex 0x20 - 0x7E ? Or a simple way to detect
>> characters outside this range before committing them to the database?
>
> If you're dealing with a numeric column, you may consider checking for
> is_numeric().


Thank you. That will solve half the problem - the case where data is
numeric only. The other half of the issue is string fields containing
mixed alpha/numeric.
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