Problem with flat file being read by Flash

[m00gzilla]

Hi - my first post here

I have a flat file that gets created in PHP and read in Flash. The problem I am having is when Flash shows the text from the flat file, it bring's with it escape codes (\n) and html nbsp codes.

Is there something in the php script I need to add to keep it from doing this?? Originally when I was testing from the Flash .swf file, it read the text fine without any extra characters. So, i'm assuming now it's coming from the PHP side.

Any help would be great!
Thanks!

[trillion]

I don't know how you are getting your text to the php but this example will change '/n' to ' ' in the input from a $_POST form submit

$texttopass = str_replace("\n"," ",$_POST['textfromphp']);

put a line like this after your input is recieved and before your text file is written to

[m00gzilla]

Thanks Trillion. That helped clean up some of it. Now I am still getting the escape character whenever quotes are used.
example:  This is what it shows if I use \"quotes\".

[Wintergreen]

instead of str_replace try ereg_replace("\s+", " ", $string);

That should take any tabs, newlines and white space and convert it to a single space

[m00gzilla]

[quote author=Wintergreen link=topic=108878.msg438771#msg438771 date=1158850818]
instead of str_replace try ereg_replace("\s+", " ", $string);

That should take any tabs, newlines and white space and convert it to a single space
[/quote]

ok, tried that. It removed all the 's' characters from the string and replaced them with blanks.

[m00gzilla]

ok, here is my php code

[code]
<?php

if (isset($_POST['Description'])) // If form was submitted with a message
{
  $File = 'news.txt'; // Set filename

  $Handle = fopen($File, 'w'); // If file does not exist, create it
 
  $rep = str_replace("\n"," ",$_POST['Description']);
  $Write = fwrite($Handle, $rep); // Write the new entry to the end
  $Close = fclose($Handle); // Close the file
}

?>
[/code]

I'm still having the issue of anytime a quote is used I get /" /" instead of " "

[wildteen88]

Use [url=http://php.net/stripslashes]stripslashes[/url] in that case. Your serverprobably has a setting called magic_quotes enabled which escapes quotes automatically, thus you get \" instead of ". stripslashes will unescape the escaped characters.

[m00gzilla]

Thanks!!!

Worked perfectly...