ISSUE: Firefox PDF Upload comes through as text or other

If you upload a file through Firefox, it may send the wrong mimetype for this file.

Delete mimeTypes.rdf, in the user \Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles folder.
You may find it in extensions folder also.

Delete the files and restart Firefox and see if it works for you.

http://techblog.procurios.nl/k/news/view/15872/14863/Mimetype-corruption-in-Firefox.html

http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/146338/

PHP: Download a movie instead of view

I should have known this, I probably did and forgot.
To make a movie download instead of play, esp. with these fancy new html5 browsers:

<?php
header('Content-disposition: attachment;filename=movie.mpg');
header('Content-type: video/mpeg');
readfile('movie.mpg');
?>

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/forcedownload.html

Dealing with Windows Character Input - PHP and JS

SPECIAL WINDOWS CHARACTERS AND THEIR UNICODE EQUIVALENTS

Windows name         Symbol   Win Unicode

baseline single quote  '     130 U+201A

baseline double quote  "     132 U+201E

florin                 ƒ     131 U+0192

ellipsis              ...    133 U+2026

dagger                 †     134 U+2020

double dagger          ‡     135 U+2021

circumflex accent      ˆ     136 U+02C6

permile                ‰     137 U+2030

S Hacek                Š     138 U+0160

left single guillemet  ‹     139 U+2039

OE ligature            Œ     140 U+0152

left single quote      ‘     145 U+2018

right single quote     ’     146 U+2019

left double quote      "     147 U+201C

right double quote     "     148 U+201D

bullet                 •     149 U+2022

en dash                -     150 U+2013

em dash                —     151 U+2014

tilde accent           ~     152 U+02DC

trademark ligature     ™     153 U+2122

s Hacek                š     154 U+0161

right single guillemet ›     155 U+203A

oe ligature            œ     156 U+0153

Y Dieresis             Ÿ     159 U+0178

euro sign                    128 U+20AC

Windows name          substitute comments
baseline single quote   '        apostrophe used as single quote
baseline double quote   "        quotation mark (double quote)
ellipsis               ...       three dots
circumflex accent       ^        circumflex
left single quote       ‘        apostrophe used as single quote
right single quote      ’        apostrophe used as single quote
left double quote       "        quotation mark (double quote)
right double quote      "        quotation mark (double quote)
bullet                  * or -   asterisk or hyphen
en dash                 -        hyphen
em dash                 —        two hyphens
tilde accent            ~        tilde
trademark ligature     (TM)      (TM) in superscript style

Javascript Method 1



function sanitizeMSPaste(str) {
    var myReplacements = new Array();
    var myCode, intReplacement;
  myReplacements[8211] = "-"; 
  myReplacements[8212] = "-"; 
  myReplacements[8216] = "'"; 
  myReplacements[8217] = "'"; 
  myReplacements[8218] = "'"; 
  myReplacements[8220] = '"'; 
  myReplacements[8221] = '"'; 
  myReplacements[8222] = '"'; 
  myReplacements[8224] = "+"; 
  myReplacements[8226] = "."; 
  myReplacements[8230] = "..."; 
  myReplacements[8249] = "<"; 
  myReplacements[8250] = ">"


    for(c=0; c>str.length; c++)="" p="" {<="">
        var myCode = str.charCodeAt(c);
        if(myReplacements[myCode] != undefined) {
            intReplacement = myReplacements[myCode];
            str = str.substr(0,c) + String.fromCharCode(intReplacement) + str.substr(c+1);
        }
    }
    return str;
}

Javascript Method 2



function validatephone(xxxxx) {
  var validphone = '';
  var numval = xxxxx.value
  if ( numval.charAt(0)=='+' ){ var validphone = '+';}
  curphonevar = numval.replace(/[\\A-Za-z!"‘’“”ˆ†‡‰Šƒ‹›–—…•~-ŒœŸ£$%^&*™š+_={};:'@#~,.¦\/<>?|`¬\]\[]/g,'');
  xxxxx.value = validphone + curphonevar;
  var validphone = '';
  xxxxx.focus;
}




PHP Method 1

$src = str_replace("‘", "'", $src);
$src = str_replace("’", "'", $src);
$src = str_replace("”", '"', $src);
$src = str_replace("“", '"', $src);
$src = str_replace("–", "-", $src);
$src = str_replace("…", "...", $src);



PHP Method 2

function SanitizeFromWord($Text = '') {


 $chars = array(
  130=>',',     // baseline single quote
  131=>'NLG',   // florin
  132=>'"',    // baseline double quote
  133=>'...',   // ellipsis
  134=>'**',   // dagger (a second footnote)
  135=>'***',   // double dagger (a third footnote)
  136=>'^',    // circumflex accent
  137=>'o/oo',  // permile
  138=>'Sh',   // S Hacek
  139=>'<',   // left single guillemet
  140=>'OE',   // OE ligature
  145=>'\'',   // left single quote
  146=>'\'',   // right single quote
  147=>'"',   // left double quote
  148=>'"',   // right double quote
  149=>'-',   // bullet
  150=>'-',   // endash
  151=>'--',   // emdash
  152=>'~',   // tilde accent
  153=>'(TM)',  // trademark ligature
  154=>'sh',   // s Hacek
  155=>'>',   // right single guillemet
  156=>'oe',   // oe ligature
  159=>'Y',   // Y Dieresis
  169=>'(C)',   // Copyright
  174=>'(R)'   // Registered Trademark
 );

 foreach ($chars as $chr=>$replace) {
  $Text = str_replace(chr($chr), $replace, $Text);
 }
 return $Text;
}


MooTools:

/**sanitize user input**/
form.title.value = form.title.value.tidy();
form.location.value = form.location.value.tidy();
form.description.value = form.description.value.tidy();

See Also:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.sanitize.php
http://devzone.zend.com/article/1113
http://ww.w3schools.com/php/php_filter.asp



Text Version: http://billcreswell.com/MSCharacters/MSCharacters.txt
PDF Version: http://billcreswell.com/MSCharacters/MSCharacters.pdf

Facebook Redirects to MySpace, Cisco/Linksys WRT160N3

ISSUE:
Facebook.com randomly goes to myspace page.

ipconfig/flushdns temporarily relieves the problem.

26 pages on a Cisco community forum, a problem that existed for a year before the firmware update was available.

FIX:
Upgrade the firmware from 3.02 to 3.03
http://homesupport.cisco.com/en-us/wireless/lbc/WRT160N/download

Ubuntu 9.10 & Cups Printing - Fixed

On my fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10, the printer management was not working.
When I opened system->printers, it was not connected. When I pressed connect, it gave an httpconnectionencryption message.

Some help bug files mentioned printer sharing, and editing the config file.

I found that my config files were blank.

I reinstalled through Software Center, but it turns out, that's only the gui.

I reinstalled Cups through the System -> Synaptic Package Manager, and now it is working.