I have some problems with the following PHP code :

    $nom_aj= trim(substr($val,0,30));
    $fonction_aj= trim(substr($val,30,8));
    $nb_parts_aj= trim(substr($val,38,12));
    $salarie_aj= trim(substr($val,50,1));

      if ($nom_aj!="")
    {
        (... code ...)
    }

Under IE, the test 'if ($nom_aj!="")' acts good, but under Firefox, the trim function seems not to return a troncated string, but a string with a length of 30 characters even if $val is full of space characters. So the test always returns 'true', and 'code' is executed !

I KNOW : IE and Firefox have nothing to do whith PHP, but i tried this code a lot of times, and it always bugs with Firefox, not with IE !

Thanks !

Can you please tell the complete code?

As you said, browsers can't influence PHP, it may be having display problem! What you see in source of returned HTML?

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Firstly this is a PHP question, not an HTML question, so please in the future post to the appropriate PHP forum. Rule of thumb: any time you have to post server-side code in order to explain what's going on, the server-side language is the topic you're looking to post under. Otherwise it's a shot in the dark, subscribers to the HTML forum aren't expected to know PHP, ASP, etc.

sp: troncated = truncated.

Having said that; we need more information. What is the string represented by $val? Why is it being cut up? What goal are you trying to acheive in the code.

As far as the browsers, if the values are submitted by the GET method, what does

echo "<pre>\n";
var_dump($_GET);
echo "</pre>\n";

output? If the POST method, what does var_dump($_POST) output? When you do this, also look at the dump in the HTML source code, since you won't see certain HTML entities otherwise.

You're looking for what could be different in order to find out why you are getting varying results.

Regards,
Rich

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Thanks for your interest ! (and sorry for the bad topic !)
Here is the result of the var_dump($_POST) :
- under IE :
  ["lAction"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(0) ""
  }
That's what i want !

- under Firefox :
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(60) " "
  }

Here is the HTML code for the input field :

            <select name="lAction[]" multiple size="0">
            </select>


How must I do to have absolutely the same result in all navigators ?

(Now, I think the topic really is the HTML one's !)

Thanks again !

Is that the output from HTML source? Just want to be sure there are no &nbsp; entities that you don't see.

Are you trimming the value like so

$val = trim($_POST['lAction'][0]);

before doing any other operations with it?

Also, try giving your select a default option, which could be why you have a discrepancy between browsers.

            <select name="lAction[]" multiple size="0">
                 <option value='' selected></option>
            </select>

Finally, you still haven't explained what the code does. What is it's purpose? Perhaps there is a better approach.

Regards,
Rich

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I precise : I am not the author of that code, but I have to maintain it. I have just seen there is a javascript macro which make :

    // Recopie de lassoc dans lAction
    var o;
    boxLength= document.form1.lassoc.options.length;
    for (i=0;i<boxLength;i++)
    {
        o=new Option(document.form1.lassoc.options[i].value,document.form1.lassoc.options[i].value);
        document.form1.elements["lAction[]"].options[i]=o;
    }

where
<select name="lassoc" id="lassoc" size="5" style="font-family:courier; font-size:8px;" onclick=ClickListe()>
    <option selected>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;...etc...&nbsp;</option>
</select>

(&nbsp; repeated 60 times)

We need a string of 60 spaces for display, but we want to consider it as empty in the post variable.

What could be the test, because a trim of the post variable doesn't act under firefox ?

Regards

Well, it's easy to discern what's happening then. IE is decoding the &nbsp; before sending it and Firefox isn't.

so, do html_entity_decode() before applying trim()


> (&nbsp; repeated 60 times)
> We need a string of 60 spaces for display, but we want to consider it as empty in the post > variable.

Why not just specify a width?

<select style='width: 400px;'>

HTH!

Regards,
Rich

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Here is what php manual says about html_entity_code() and trim() functions :

Note: You might wonder why trim(html_entity_decode('&nbsp;')); doesn't reduce the string to an empty string, that's because the '&nbsp;' entity is not ASCII code 32 (which is stripped by trim()) but ASCII code 160 (0xa0) in the default ISO 8859-1 characterset.

So, (I know this is not a wonderful solution) I use a str_replace(chr(160),"",$val). Perhaps (should be) is there a better solution ?

Thank you Rich and anshul !