uploading special characters from excel to mysql and php binary/Image

I have a problem with uploading special characters from excel files to
mysql 5. It doesn't matter if I use UTF-8 or iso-8859-1 when uploading
the trademark ™ symbol. htmlspecialchars() or htmletities() doesn't
help? the database doesn't show the data in the field but replaces it
with the binary/Image information.

the following are examples of how I've tried loading the data along
with UTF-8 or iso-8859-1:


foreach ($SelectFields as $TempSelect) {
if($SelectedFieldValues[$TempSelect] == ''){
$strSQLQuery .= "'',";
} else {
$strSQLQuery .=
"'".htmlentities(addslashes($SelectedFieldValu es[$TempSelect]))."',";
}
}

or

foreach ($SelectFields as $TempSelect) {
if($SelectedFieldValues[$TempSelect] == ''){
$strSQLQuery .= "'',";
} else {
$strSQLQuery .=
"'".htmlentities($SelectedFieldValues[$TempSelect])."',";
}
}

or

foreach ($SelectFields as $TempSelect) {
if($SelectedFieldValues[$TempSelect] == ''){
$strSQLQuery .= "'',";
} else {
$strSQLQuery .=
"'".htmlspecialchars(addslashes($SelectedFieldValu es[$TempSelect]))."',";
}
}

or

foreach ($SelectFields as $TempSelect) {
if($SelectedFieldValues[$TempSelect] == ''){
$strSQLQuery .= "'',";
} else {
$strSQLQuery .=
"'".htmlspecialchars($SelectedFieldValues[$TempSelect])."',";
}
}

re: uploading special characters from excel to mysql and php binary/Image

On 17 Jun, 15:47, matech <robert.mat...@hotmail.co.ukwrote:
I have read and re-read this post and I cannot manage to make it make
any sense.
mysql is an RDBMS. You do not upload special characters to it. You
insert values into fields.
What do you mean by this? If I have a VARCHAR field, it can only hold
text. I will not see an image there.
Please show us where $SelectFields comes from, what data gets into
$TempSelect, what the table schema is, which field of the table
$TempSelect will be loaded into, what the value is that is found in
the field.

In other words, give us something concrete to work with.

re: uploading special characters from excel to mysql and php binary/Image

The following is the function used to upload the excel file.

function UploadProductTemp($arrayDetails) {
global $configTables;
extract($arryDetails);
$ArrayFieldName = $this->GetFieldName('product_temp');
foreach($ArrayFieldName as $key=>$values){
if($values['Field'] != 'productID') $SelectFields[$values['Field']]
= $values['Field'];
}
function GetExcelExtension($file){
$revfile=strrev($file); // Reverse the string for getting the
extension
$arr_t=explode(".",$revfile);
$file_type=$arr_t[0];
return strrev($file_type); // File Extension
}
$file_type=GetExcelExtension($FilePath);
if($file_type=='xls' || $file_type=='XLS') $supported=1;
else $supported=2;
if($supported>1){
echo "Sorry, File can't be uploaded, Please Upload only excel
file."; exit;
}else{
$Destination = $FilePath;
$Destination = 'upload/product.xls';
$obj=new product();
$objSupp=new supplier();
$data=new Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader();
$data->read($Destination);
for ($i = $startFrom+1; $i <= $data->sheets[0]['numRows']; $i++)
{
for ($j = 1; $j <= $data->sheets[0]['numCols']; $j++) {
foreach ($SelectFields as $TempSelect) {
$sel = 's'.$TempSelect;
$Selected = $$sel;
if($j==$Selected){
$SelectedFieldValues[$TempSelect] =$data->sheets[0]
['cells'][$i][$j];
}
}
}
if(count($SelectedFieldValues) 0 && $i>$startFrom){
if($obj->isProductExists('product_temp',
$SelectedFieldValues['catalogNumber'])){
$strSQLQuery = "update bioscience_product set ";
foreach ($SelectFields as $TempSelect) {
$strSQLQuery .=
$TempSelect."='".htmlentities(addslashes($Selected FieldValues[$TempSelect]))."',";
}
$strSQLQuery = rtrim($strSQLQuery,",");
$strSQLQuery .= "where catalogNumber='".
$SelectedFieldValues['catalogNumber']."'";
}else{
if(($SelectedFieldValues['productName']!='') and
($SelectedFieldValues['catalogNumber']!='')) {
$strSQLQuery = "insert into product_temp(";
$strSQLQuery .= implode(",",$SelectFields);
$strSQLQuery .= ")values(";

foreach ($SelectFields as $TempSelect) {
if($SelectedFieldValues[$TempSelect] == ''){
$strSQLQuery .= "'',";
}else{
$strSQLQuery .=
"'".htmlentities(addslashes($SelectedFieldValu es[$TempSelect]))."',";
}
}
$strSQLQuery = rtrim($strSQLQuery,",");
$strSQLQuery .= ")";
$this->query($strSQLQuery, 0);
}
}
}
}
}
}
}