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PHP example to debug requests done in ISO-8859-1 & UTF-8 pages
<?php
$debug = [];
// Configure charset
$charsets = ['utf-8', 'iso-8859-1'];
$charset = array_key_exists('charset', $_REQUEST) &&
in_array(mb_strtolower($_REQUEST['charset']), $charsets) ? mb_strtolower($_REQUEST['charset']) : 'utf-8';
ini_set('default_charset', $charset);
mb_internal_encoding(ini_get('default_charset'));
// Request parameters
$isAjax = array_key_exists('HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH', $_SERVER) &&
(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) === 'xmlhttprequest');
$requestType = !empty($_GET) ? 'GET' : (!empty($_POST) ? 'POST' : 'N/A');
$text = $_REQUEST['text'];
if ($charset === 'iso-8859-1' && $isAjax) {
// Using trial & error (to get the same response as non-ajax requests)
// In Manual URLs, only works when using encodeURIComponent (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/encodeURIComponent)
$text = mb_convert_encoding($text, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8');
$text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_COMPAT, 'CP1252');
}
if (!empty($text)) {
$debug[] = 'charset: ' . $charset . ' request: ' . $requestType . ' ajax: ' . ($isAjax ? 'true' : 'false');
$debug[] = 'text: ' . $text;
$debug[] = 'mb_strlen: ' . mb_strlen($text) . ' strlen: ' . strlen($text) . PHP_EOL;
}
// Ajax request
if ($isAjax) {
echo join(PHP_EOL, $debug);
die();
}
// Uncomment if necessary
// $textHtmlized = htmlspecialchars($text, ENT_COMPAT, $charset);
$textHtmlized = $text;
?>
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="<?php echo $charset ?>">
<title>Test INPUT</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>TEST INPUT (charset: <?php echo $charset; ?>, request: <?php echo $requestType; ?>)</h1>
<div>
<a href="debug-charsets-requests.php?charset=utf-8">Reset UTF-8</a> |
<a href="debug-charsets-requests.php?charset=iso-8859-1">Reset ISO-8859-1</a>
</div>
<h2>Example data</h2>
<!-- space 1-ñ-€-Ⓜ-東-🐵-𣇵-😮-📷-2 a&b end! -->
<div><span class="ui-example">space 1-&ntilde;-&euro;-&#9410;-&#26481;-&#128053;-&#143861;-&#128558;-&#128247;-2 a&amp;b end!</span> <a href="#" class="ui-copy">copy</a></div>
<h2>Test GET/POST</h2>
<form action="debug-charsets-requests.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="text" value="<?php echo $textHtmlized; ?>" size="50" class="ui-input-text" />
<input type="hidden" name="charset" value="<?php echo $charset; ?>" />
<br />
<input type="button" value="Submit GET" class="ui-request-get ui-request-form" />
<input type="button" value="Submit POST" class="ui-request-post ui-request-form" />
<br />
<input type="button" value="Ajax GET" class="ui-request-get ui-request-ajax" />
<input type="button" value="Ajax POST" class="ui-request-post ui-request-ajax" />
<br />
<input type="button" value="Ajax URL (manual) WRONG" class="ui-request-get ui-request-url ui-url-manual" />
<input type="button" value="Ajax URL (escape) WRONG" class="ui-request-get ui-request-url ui-url-escape" />
<input type="button" value="Ajax URL (encodeURIComponent) OK" class="ui-request-get ui-request-url ui-url-encode" />
</form>
<h2>DEBUG</h2>
<textarea rows="8" cols="120" class="ui-debug" disabled>
<?php echo join(PHP_EOL, $debug); ?>
</textarea>
<pre class="ui-debug-pre">
<?php echo str_replace(['&', '<', '>'], ['&amp;', '&lt;', '&gt;'], join(PHP_EOL, $debug)); ?>
</pre>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var $form = $('form');
var $input = $form.find('input[name=text]');
$('.ui-copy').on('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$input.val($('.ui-example').text());
});
$('input[type=button]').on('click', function(e) {
var $button = $(this);
var charset = $form.find('input[name=charset]').val();
var isAjax = $button.is('.ui-request-ajax') || $button.is('.ui-request-url');
var isGet = $button.is('.ui-request-get');
var isAjaxUrl = $button.is('.ui-request-url');
var text = $input.val();
if (!isAjax) {
$form.attr('method', isGet ? 'GET' : 'POST');
$form.submit();
} else {
var url = 'debug-charsets-requests.php';
var method = isGet ? 'GET' : 'POST';
if ($button.is('.ui-url-escape')) {
text = escape(text);
} else if ($button.is('.ui-url-encode')) {
text = encodeURIComponent(text);
}
var data = {'text': text, 'charset': charset};
if (isAjaxUrl) {
url += '?text=' + text + '&charset=' + charset;
data = {};
}
debug(JSON.stringify({'url': url, 'method': method, 'data': data}), true);
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: method,
data: data,
success: function (data, status)
{
debug(data, false);
},
error: function (xhr, desc, err)
{
alert(xhr);
alert('Details: ' + desc + '\nError:' + err);
}
});
}
});
function debug(data, isRequest) {
var $debug = $('.ui-debug');
if (isRequest) {
$debug.val('REQUEST:\n' + data + '\n');
} else {
$debug.val($debug.val() + 'RESPONSE:\n' + data + '\n');
}
$('.ui-debug-pre').html($debug.val().replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/\</g, '&lt;').replace(/\>/g, '&gt;'));
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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