Encoding Comments

[J]

Hi. I am putting up a new personal video blogging web site. I was just
wondering if there was a way for me to have an option where the viewer
can leave a comment and have everyone else see the comments as well. I
do not require the viewer to make an account. All I need is to have a
field where the viewer enters their name and the comment they wish to
leave. After they hit the submit button, the comment will be posted on
the web site for everyone to see.

Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

 

[Mike Massonnet]

Le Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:29:08 -0400, J a écrit :

Hi. I am putting up a new personal video blogging web site. I was just
wondering if there was a way for me to have an option where the viewer
can leave a comment and have everyone else see the comments as well. I
do not require the viewer to make an account. All I need is to have a
field where the viewer enters their name and the comment they wish to
leave. After they hit the submit button, the comment will be posted on
the web site for everyone to see.

Hi,
In the normal way, you set up the encoding to use in a meta tag. Web
Browsers will automatically follow this indication and you will receive
the data in the encoding you have set up.

If you really care, you can use PHP functions to check if the text is
encoded in UTF-8, and encode or decode it.

Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

HTH,
cheers,
Mike

 

[jojo]

Hi,
In the normal way, you set up the encoding to use in a meta tag. Web
Browsers will automatically follow this indication and you will receive
the data in the encoding you have set up.

If you really care, you can use PHP functions to check if the text is
encoded in UTF-8, and encode or decode it.


HTH,
cheers,
Mike

Erm, excuse me, but did *this* really refer to the question? I
personally understood the question like this:
|| How do I add the possibility to post a comment to my site?

*This* would be much more tricky then setting an encoding...
First you need SQL or any other database to store the comments. The
second step is to write a ServerSide Script which inserts the data.
Third you have to write a HTML form to post the data (with the right
encoding of course, see Mike's post). And last you of course have to
write a page which displays all the data from your database.
You see, not quite easy... you need much experience to write something
like this on your own... An easier alternative would be to use
web-services which can be embedded into your site. Google for it to find
some...

HTH more...
jojo

 

[Mike Massonnet]

Le Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:53:05 +0200, jojo a écrit :

Erm, excuse me, but did *this* really refer to the question? I
personally understood the question like this:
|| How do I add the possibility to post a comment to my site?

Damnit, where the heck did I read something about encoding problems.. :|

Sorry for the noise.

Mike

 

[jojo]

Damnit, where the heck did I read something about encoding problems.. :|

perhaps you misinterpreted the subject? A bit misleading...

Sorry for the noise.

Doesn't matter, being wrong is human...

 

[Mike Massonnet]

Le Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:29:08 +0200, jojo a écrit :

perhaps you misinterpreted the subject? A bit misleading...

Ah right in the subject!

Cheers,
Mike