I did an update from FMPro 6 (webCompanion) to 8 advanced on a mac os X and started having a 958 error code appearing when using a form to transfer data from a web page to FileMaker...

I found a solution that created another problem. It was to use urlencode to transform the variables of each form fields to be UTF-8 and url compatible. But once in FileMaker, the data stay encoded and difficult to read...

Does anybody have a clue? Is it to change the Apache configuration file and in what way exactly (i've read about changing Apache character set in the httpd.conf file but did not find how to do it)?

Finaly, is there a way to force FX to use post instead of an url when sending datas to FileMaker? I think the problem comes from that...

Thank's

Filemaker 6 - use ISO coding

Filemaker 7 and up - use UTF-8

Yes - check the Apache conf file and the PHP file to make sure that the character coding is consistent.

To use POST:

Create a form with hidden fields. Give the form a name (ie TheForm).

Use Javascript for your link: href="javascript:document.TheForm.submit()"

All your data is posted rather than GET

Thank you mlindal,

The file httpd.conf contain this line uncommented (AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8) an also this one (AddCharset ISO-8859-8 .iso8859-8).

Do you think it does the job for correct character handling in FileMaker?

If yes, i have to verify the php configuration file but i have some problems to find this php.ini file in my macintosh. As php is embedded in MacOSX, is it possible to find and modify this file? An what it's name and location?

If you have any clue...

Edited March 14, 200718 yr by Guest