inverted commas

[Woodburn2006]

similar to nl2br() is there any way of going through a block of text and making it make the inverted commas visible, as i have this text taken from a DB and it has a load of question marks where there should be an inverted comma. also, is there a way to make a new line create a bullet point similar to how nl2br() creates a break?

 

this is the page im working on: http://www.ontherocks.me.uk/index2.php?go=gear&member=ben

 

thanks

[jonsjava]

not sure this will work, but you can give it a go:

<?php
$data = str_replace("�", ",", "Gibson Les Paul Custom-87�(fitted with Zakk wilde EMG 81 and 85 pickups)");
print $data;
?>

[jonsjava]

that didn't work out too well:

<?php

$data = str_replace("�", ",", "Gibson Les Paul Custom-87�(fitted with Zakk wilde EMG 81 and 85 pickups)");

print $data;

[taquitosensei]

check your encoding.  Usually when you get the checkmark with a black background or any other strange symbols it's because your encoding is wrong somewhere along the lines. Either when putting it in your database, pulling it out or displaying it.

 

check your headers for this line or something close

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

if you don't have this line add it inside your head tags. If you do modify the charset to utf-8    if it's already utf-8 try iso8859-1

 

[jonsjava]

actually, I'm betting it's caused by someone copying and pasting from a word document.

[jackpf]

In response to your bulleting each line, this may work: (untested)

$str = 'whatever you want to have';
$str = explode("\n", $str);
echo '<ul>';
foreach($str as $key => $value)
{
echo '<li>'.$value.'</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';