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Month: July, 2009

How to use json_encode with ISO-8859-1 data – Part2

31 July, 2009 (12:04) | PHP, Web Development, iso 8859-1, utf-8 | By: Pablo Viquez

To continue with the previous post.
Problem: Function json_encode does not support ISO-8859-1 encoded data.
One solution that I did, in order to preserve the character set was to encode the
data before using the json_encode function to use just A-Z, a-z and 0-9 characters,
instead of sending text with accents or symbols.
One encoding that fits perfectly in this [...]

How to use json_encode with ISO-8859-1 data – Part1

17 July, 2009 (13:51) | PHP, Web Development, debug, iso 8859-1, utf-8 | By: Pablo Viquez

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While I was looking at some AJAX calls, I started to have a problem, for some reason, when I tried to query a JSON service I did using JQuery, the result was null for some fields.
Going a little deeper, I notice that the records from the DB were OK, and the JavaScript [...]

PHP 5.3 with improved Type Hinting and type casting

9 July, 2009 (09:58) | PHP, tech | By: Pablo Viquez

From Illia Alshanetsky blog post:
There has been a lot of comments both on this blog and the internals list. There seems to be a fairly large group of core developers who like the idea as well as surpassingly large support base on the user level too (wow, didn’t think that this many people want type [...]