Really Strange...

nooor83 · May 5th, 2006, 02:18 AM

hi guys..

im trying to do some ajax work here..

search.html
=================
html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256">
    <title>Ã¤ÃÃÃ£ ÃÃÃ ÃÃ¡ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃ¤ÃÃ</title>
    <script type="text/javascript"src="zxml.js"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        function requestCustomerInfo() {
        displayCustomerInfo("Searching Stored Surveys....");
            var sId = document.getElementById("txtCustomerId").value;
            var oXmlHttp = zXmlHttp.createRequest();
            oXmlHttp.open("get", "get_search_results.php?id=" + sId, true);
            oXmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
                if (oXmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
                    if (oXmlHttp.status == 200) {
                        displayCustomerInfo(oXmlHttp.responseText);
                    } else {
                        displayCustomerInfo("An error occurred: " + oXmlHttp.statusText); //statusText is not always accurate
                    }
                }
            };
            oXmlHttp.send(null);
        }

        function displayCustomerInfo(sText) {
            var divCustomerInfo = document.getElementById("divCustomerInfo");
            divCustomerInfo.innerHTML = sText;
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body dir="rtl">
    <p>ÃÃÃÃ¡ Ã£Ã ÃÃÃÃ ÃÃ¡ÃÃÃ ÃÃ¤Ã¥:</p>
    <p>ÃÃ¡Ã£Ã ÃÃ¡ÃÃÃ: <input type="text" id="txtCustomerId" value="" dir="rtl" /></p>
    <p><input type="button" value=" ÃÃÃÃ ÃÃ¡ÃÃÃ " onclick="requestCustomerInfo()" /></p>
    <div id="divCustomerInfo"></div>
</body>
</html>

get_search_results.php
===================

<?php
    require_once("./include/db_fns.php");
    header("Content-Type:text/plain ; charset=windows-1256");

    $sID = $_GET["id"];

    $sInfo = "";

    $conn = db_connect();

    //create the SQL query string
    $sql = "Select survey_id,survey_topic from survey_topic where survey_topic like '%$sID%'";
    $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());

    if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0)
    {
        while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
        {
            $survey_id=$row['survey_id'];
            $survey_topic = $row['survey_topic'];

            $sInfo = $sInfo . "<a href=\"preview_results.php?sid=$survey_id\">$surve y_topic</a><br>";
        }
    }
       else
       {
            $sInfo = $sID;#$sql;#"Ã¡Ã£ Ã¤ÃÃ ÃÃÃ Ã¤ÃÃÃÃ Ã¡ÃÃÃÃ...ÃÃÃÃ¬ ÃÃ¡Ã£ÃÃÃ¦ÃÃ Ã£ÃÃ ÃÃÃÃ¬..";
    }

   echo $sInfo;

?>

the problem im facing is...

when im searching for some ARABIC text..the sId (java script variable) has the value of the textbox and when i alert it is shows arabic perfect...but when its sent through the XMLhttp to the php page, the ARABIC text becomes ????? all question marks....i really dunno what's happening...the encoding of the two page is set to the arabic encoding ...

previously i have faced the same issue but it was with MYSQL and i solved it..this time there is no database....

what can be done to solve this problem ??

Regards,

Noor

nzakas · May 5th, 2006, 11:27 AM

Noor,

JavaScript is Unicode compliant, so your Arabic text will always work fine with it. When sending it in text format over HTTP, you need to specify an appropriate encoding. You can try setting this on the XMLHttp object:

Code:

oXmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "text/html; charset=UTF-8");

I will admit that encodings are not my strong suit, but this should get you going in the right direction.

Nicholas C. Zakas
Author, Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN 0764579088)
http://www.nczonline.net/

nooor83 · May 6th, 2006, 01:53 PM

Mr. Nicholas,

than you for the reply..but the code you passed by made no difference...i think it's something to do with my apache server...i think that i have to add the arabic language to it...

if you have some more ideas or suggestion i'll be very happy to hear from you...

Regards,

Noor

nzakas · May 6th, 2006, 07:21 PM

Noor,

I'm sorry, I don't know enough about setting up Apache to be able to help you with that. Please let me know if you do get it working.

Nicholas C. Zakas
Author, Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN 0764579088)
http://www.nczonline.net/

joefawcett · May 7th, 2006, 02:47 AM

I'm no PHP expert but this looks wrong:
header("Content-Type:text/plain ; charset=windows-1256");
try
header("Content-Type:text/plain ; charset=charset=UTF-8");

--

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

nooor83 · May 7th, 2006, 08:40 AM

header("Content-Type:text/plain ; charset=UTF-8");

i tried this one also....there is something really strange....i have the file uploaded alreadyt on the server..when i try to acess the search page from home..i get the encoding problem...but when i check from office,,,i get no encoding problem....what is the reason for that ??

do u think that it's a browser issue or what..

Thanx for the help guys..

Regards,

Noor

joefawcett · May 7th, 2006, 08:59 AM

If you're using IE check the setting under view | encoding. I've often found that it's set not to auto select or set on the wrong character set.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

nooor83 · May 7th, 2006, 12:51 PM

hi joefawcett,

thanx for the reply,,

but the encoding is correct..i dunno what's the reason..ARABIC text was always a problem..lol

but why on two different systems the page function in different ways ??

thanx for any suggestion..

Noor