By syedz on

When I try to create an account based on the username, from LDAP/AD, in Drupal, I also want to retrieve some important information such as name of the person, department, job title, telephone, etc. The issue is that when I retrieve the department or job title, sometimes the information isn't saved in the Drupal user profile. I realized that it was probably because some job titles are named "Human Resources", where as others are named "Assistant Eng/Officer | Solutions". The "|" would be a special character, at least from my understanding and mySQL experience. How would I go about validating the entry and possibly stripping it of the 'invalid' characters so that it shows up in the profile? Any help would be appreciated.

Zee

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therealwebguy commented

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/check_plain/6

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syedz commented

Thanks, but unfortunately I've already tried that and it doesn't seem to work.

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syedz commented

Okay so after doing some research I found out that it isn't the "|" that's an invalid character. The "|" is actually an Em dash in the ASCII table. I can't seem to find anything that works including htmlspecialchars(), urlencode(), and a few others. I'm left with having to create a function that looks for special characters using numerous str_replace()'s. There has to be a more efficient way of doing this, anyone with any advice is welcome to suggestions.
Thanks,

Zee