On 22 Oct 2008 at 14:39, Thodoris wrote:
Hi guys,
I am developing a project and I wrote an interface to import contracts
in it. The problem is that when the user uploads the file I don't know
what is the encoding it has. So I decided that a good idea is to make
the user tell me the encoding from a drop down before I parse the file.
Then I could probably change the encoding with iconv and use it to
validate the data and make the inserts in mysql. Although in the unix
world I have available the iconv command and I can change the file to
the new encoding like this:
iconv -f CP737 -t UTF-8 -o newfile.csv original_file.csv
I can't find a way to do this from within php. Iconv support gives me
some options but only to convert strings and there is not a way AFAIK to
get all the supported encodings from the system as I can do in command
line with this:
iconv --list
Is this the best way to do this ? Can I use mbstring as an alternative ?
Please make any suggestions you might think because I am stuck.
Hi,
I assume there is a reason why can't just run the command above from php?
Regards
Ian
You mean besides the fact that I have to wrap "iconv --list" output and
put it in a drop down? =-O
As a matter of fact the reason is that I don't know if the server that I
plan to upload the project gives me the right to run it although my
linux does.
--
Thodoris
