At 9:46 AM +1000 6/2/06, Richard Luckhurst wrote: >Hi All > >I am in the process of cleaning up an application that was left half finished. >I >am fairly new to PHP so I am seeking the wisdom of the community to help with a >little problem. > >In many cases I need to build command strings to be sent to a backend system. >The strings have to contain a couple of non ascii characters. > >I have no problem with the following in a script > >$RM="\xFF"; > >Then using the variable works fine within that chunk of php code. > >What I would like to do is place all of the extended ascii characters in one of >the inc files and just use these in various scripts throughout the application. > >When I try what I get is a test representation rather than the actual ascii >code. Ie I get \xFF instead of the ascii character ΓΏ > >Is there any way to actually do this in php? > > > >Regards, >Richard Luckhurst >Product Development
Yes, I think there is -- we discussed this a few months ago on this list and someone wrote a routine to do basically want you want, or so I think -- so check the archives. tedd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
