HTML

I've been trying to find the kind of PHP library that allows you to quick-generate an HTML form a basic XML structure. Apparently there is no such thing, so here you can find some code that will help you do that (you still have to build the form tags from outside the function).

Here's a nice article on how to define nice HTML form buttons that look good and work even without JS: http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/

This article was first written in June 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/270).

Introduction

This article is about sorting web forms encoding problems. In particular, it looks into an encoding problem found when serving a UTF-8 form, expecting a completed UTF-8 form to come back, but really getting a ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15 form. It is aimed to be a solution article, explaining step by step how to reverse-engineer such a problem to find a reasonable solution.

This article was first written in July 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/139).

To enable all characters to be displayed correctly in an HTML page, even if you use different languages (english, japanese, russian, …), a good way is to encode everything in unicode, using the UTF-8 character set representation.

Server & client config

In Apache config file httpd.conf, one of the following must be defined: #AddDefaultCharset on AddDefaultCharset off AddDefaultCharset utf-8 More info: