CODEWITHSUNDEEP
php
Olof
Olof

Reputation: 797

Php text encode

I have this some code that will auto generate a string but some of the special characters is shown like: �

Code:

header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
function RandomString($length = 10){
    $chars ='0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzåäöABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÄÖ!#¤%&()=?@£$€{}[]+';
    $randString = '';
    for($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++){
        $randString .= $chars[rand(0, 88)];
    }
    echo $randString;
    return $randString;
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 743

Answers (1)

kokx
kokx

Reputation: 1706

There are a few characters in your $chars array, that are multibyte characters (UTF-8 to be precise). Unfortunately, PHP doesn't handle multibyte characters that well on its own.

A solution here, is to replace all the calls with a variant that supports multibyte characters. The mbstring extension provides such support.

You can replace a call as $chars[rand(0,88)] by a call to the mb_substr function. So you get something like mb_substr($chars, rand(0, 88), 1).

Upvotes: 3

Related Questions