mikePhp Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I am wanting to display some text from my Database on another page, I have NOW successfully created a connection and can display the text, But the text that is displaying has, little anomalies in it and won't display just as normal text like the rest on my index page. I have got strip_tags in-place to take the image way but how would i get it to display the text correctly wordpress Have a look at what i am on-about to get a better understanding.. http://www.planet-group.net/magazines/foodanddrink/?page=home under the heading "ROD MILLINGTON" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damianjames Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 It looks like you have characters that Microsoft Word or some program uses for apostrophes and double quotes. They need to be replaced with plain text equivalents or html escape codes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikePhp Posted July 28, 2008 Author Share Posted July 28, 2008 It looks like you have characters that Microsoft Word or some program uses for apostrophes and double quotes. They need to be replaced with plain text equivalents or html escape codes. Well what i am not getting is, I am dragging this from my wordpress Database, so this text is also displayed if you go to the News Link on the left nave bar, but it displays correctly in wordpress, I know wordpress does alot of filteration of text before either inserting to Db or displaying to screen...Wondering if any one could at all shed some light on this .. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PFMaBiSmAd Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 The character encoding used on that page is not the same as the character encoding of the contents and the Wordpress page. That page also has W3C Xhtml and CSS valid icons but it contains several markup and css errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikePhp Posted July 28, 2008 Author Share Posted July 28, 2008 So is there any way i can actually get it display correctly on the Main Page The XHTML AND CSS Icons are true to the website if you care to check again Mr PFMaBiSmAd I had 1 error in a loop, thus making look more than it actually was. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damianjames Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I replied as I did because I've run into this a lot on the sites I have to work with for my company. They were programmed haphazardly (C#.net with resource files) and the site blows up if those apostrophes/double quotes appear in any resource file. Short of the developers checking the encoding of all the pages, I've had success with just replacing those extended-type characters in a plain text editor (or using an escape code). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 So is there any way i can actually get it display correctly on the Main PageChange the character encoding being specified in the meta tag to be the same as that used on the Wordpress page??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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