Graffiti Wall - Charactor fix, I hate that square.

Here is something silly but helpful:

I notice my members like to write stuff like using symbols, for example: Frankenberrie #1 - Frankenberrie!!!!

The # and ! symbol along with most other symbols come up as a little squre on the wall and looks retarded. What I did was added the following to the censored words lists in the WALL.PHP file to prevent this from happening.

$string = str_replace( "$", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "#", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "!", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "@", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "%", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "&", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "*", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "/", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "<", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "~", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "[", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "]", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "{", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "}", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( ";", "", $string );
$string = str_replace( "|", "", $string );

If I missed anything, feel free to add it. Please note that one of the fonts does display a few of these charactors correctly but to prevent these squares completely you will have to add the above to your wall.php file. Hope this helps.

You can see it at: http://www.arcadecrazy.com/thearcade/wall.php

No squares

[Boofo]

How about a pic of the before and after? I'm not sure what this does.

[MPDev]

Good idea.

[chriswible]

I needed that. Thanks.

[Polo]

Arent his all addons to an existing hack, i think they should be added in the original hacks thread.... just a suggestions... but oh well... this was needed.... because i have the same problem

oh and by the way, the character

'

I think it needs to be added (dont know if its possible) because I just went to your wall and a member posted "don't" and it looked

don(square)t

lol :nervous:

modifications of a hack that does not add any functionality would need to be added in the thread of the hack itself, and the coder would decide to add it as a addon... logically... no need to make a release for this... or you simply need to add to your count of releases...

[amykhar]

I have a much better fix for this. Your fix blanks out the problem characters. Mine shows them correctly.

In wall.php Find:

imagettftext($myimage, $fontsize, $textangle, $start_x, $start_y, $color, $fontfile, $string);

Add above:

$string = utf8_encode($string);

[frankenberrie]

Originally Posted by amykhar

I have a much better fix for this. Your fix blanks out the problem characters. Mine shows them correctly.

In wall.php Find:

imagettftext($myimage, $fontsize, $textangle, $start_x, $start_y, $color, $fontfile, $string);

Add above:

$string = utf8_encode($string);

Tried that and it does not work!

[amykhar]

Works fine for me here. Dunno.

[frankenberrie]

Strange... I will try again.