[KLUG Programming] PHP, MySQL and MS Word Cut-n-Paste

[Todd Pillars]

Andrew Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 14:08, Todd Pillars wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know of a way to strip the MS Word cruft out of a cut and 
>>paste?  Document formating seems to be creeping into a MySQL database, 
>>when pasting from MS Word into a PHP form.
> 
> 
> Are you literally cutting/copying out of MS Word?
Yep

> You might try pasting
> first into Notepad, then cutting from there to your form. A little
> crufty, but a nice, quick'n'dirty way to strip out formatting.
That is what _I_ do. Kills bullets and such dead in their tracks.

Try to get applicants filling out a form to do one extra step and they 
cry like a 3 year old when a balloon pops.

And then they turn around and tell you they will go the extra mile for 
you if you hire them... go figure.

> 
> 
> 
>>I have tried both utf8_convert and mysql_real_escape_string() but some 
>>unicode (hex) characters are still getting by.
> 
> 
> Doesn't sound like that's what's going on, though...
Nope, but thanks for letting me rant :)

Todd