CMSB COOKBOOK PHP code copied from Firefox has nonprinting characters causing errors (I Think)

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Last Post: January 18 (RSS)

Hi all,

I’ve come up with a weird issue.

Lately, when I copy any php code snippets from my CMSB Cookbook recipe detail page (that is displayed in the latest version of Firefox with standard security settings and no plugins), and try to paste it into a blank php page, I get a multitude of errors (I’m seeing them in Dreamweaver, image attached) and the errors also keep the page from displaying in a browser. A copy of a page with malformed code is also attached.

I can, however, generate clean detail viewer code for the detail page and any code copied from that page viewed in Firefox throws no errors and works correctly.

I can also view the recipe detail page in either Chrome or Edge, and any copied code snippet show no errors.

I'm running CMSB Version 3.57 (discovered the issue in 3.55 before I updated today) and PHP 7.4 (Bluehost hasn't updated my server to PHP8+ yet)

I’m pretty sure that it has something to do with the code on the detail page (attached) that is generating some non printable characters that mess with Firefox, but I’m pretty much at the limit of my expertise here.

The original code was created in December 2018 with much help from Daniel Louwe.

The original forum thread was: https://www.interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?81509
And the CMSB Cookbook recipe is at: http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com/recipedetail.php?324

Thanks,

Jerry Kornbluth

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Attachments:

Dreamweaver errors.jpg 62K

recipedetail.php 10K

bad code.php 1K

By Dave - January 12

Hi Jerry,

That's an interesting one!

It looks like the spaces in the code are being replaced by a multibyte UTF-8 sequence (hex: C2A0, unicode: U+00A0) which is the no-break-space (nbsp) Unicode character. PHP doesn't understand that as a space, so it's as if there an unknown character anywhere a space should be.

It may be the code formatting PHP code is inserting that. Or you might have some code that is turning   into that. In any case, you want to use the HTML entity  

I'd double-check any code formatting code you have.

Hope that helps! Let me know what you find out!

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

By gkornbluth - January 13

Hi Dave,

Glad you could find a possible culprit.

Is there any way for you to check the php recipe code for any issues or required updates through consulting?

Thanks,

Jerry Kornbluth

The first CMS Builder reference book is now available on-line!

Take advantage of a free 3 month trial subscription, only for CMSB users, at: http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com/trial.php

By Dave - January 17

Hi Jerry,

Sure thing, just send through a second-level support ticket with instructions on how to recreate the issue and we'll have a look.

Thanks!

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

By gkornbluth - January 18

Thank you Dave,

I've submitted the support request

Jerry Kornbluth

The first CMS Builder reference book is now available on-line!

Take advantage of a free 3 month trial subscription, only for CMSB users, at: http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com/trial.php