Sanitization and languages / charsets

[alexpi]

Hello,

I have a problem with a multi-language site and sanitization. When I sanitize the inputs that are entered in other languages than english, I get no return value. Everything on the site is in utf-8. Any insights? 

[Soma]

Any more useful infos or code that shows what you're talking about?

[alexpi]

Sorry, this must have been vague!

I have a contact.php file with PW bootstrapped, called via AJAX that contains the following code:

include('../index.php');

$contact = $wire->pages->get('/settings/contact/');
$contact->of(true);
$language = $wire->user->language;

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
$emailTo = 'an email';

$name = $wire->input->post['name'];
$email = $wire->input->post['email'];
$message = $wire->input->post['message'];

$form = array(
	'name' => $wire->sanitizer->name($name),
	'email' => $wire->sanitizer->email($email),
	'message' => $wire->sanitizer->textarea($message)
);
// below is some form validation code that is irrelevant

The form code is:

<form action='<?php echo $root->url ?>includes/contact.php' method='post'>
   <div>
        <input type="text" id="name" name="name" placeholder="name" required />
        <input type="email" id="email" name="email" placeholder="email" required />
        <input type="submit" name="submit" value="send" />
   </div>
      <textarea id="message" name="message" placeholder="your message" required ></textarea>
                 
    <div class="contact_message"></div>
    <div class="loading hidden"></div>
</form>  

If I enter information in the form in English, the form works as expected. If I type in Greek, the form submission does not occur.

If I remove the sanitizer functions, the Greek data pass and the form works again.

[Martijn Geerts]

Is the mbstring extension for PHP loaded ?

// If this function tells something like: Unknown function 'mb_strlen'

// then multibyte support is not functioning/enabled


<?php mb_strlen("test"); ?>

[alexpi]

The mb_strlen() does not throw an error.

[alexpi]

I found out that $sanitizer->name() only accepts latin characters. I changed to $sanitizer->text() and it works in any language.

[SiNNuT]

http://cheatsheet.processwire.com/#sanitizer