Uploading files w/ Fetch FTP cause UTF-8 Warnings after installation??

[infekt]

I have successfully installed Prestashop multiple times on my server. Though continually I am faced with the following glitch:

Upon new account registration and submission I get the following error:


There are 3 errors :
1. lastname is invalid
2. firstname is invalid
3. city is invalid


And yes, these fields have been filled out correctly. Please see the page:

My registration form

Thank you.

[infekt]

OK, well i found what's happening....

In Validate.php

    /**
   * Check for name validity
   *
   * @param string $name Name to validate
   * @return boolean Validity is ok or not
   */
   static public function isName($name)
   {
       return preg_match('/^[^0-9!<>,;?=+()@#"¨É{}_$%:]*$/u', stripslashes($name));
   }

The characters: ¨É are not UTF-8.

[infekt]

This line in Validate.php, isName:

preg_match('/^[^0-9!<>,;?=+()@#"¨É{}_$%:]*$/u', stripslashes($name));

Causes this warning:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: invalid UTF-8 string at offset 19 in...

Anyone able to shed some light on why this errors would affect only some installations? Possibly php version?

[infekt]

Nobody know or nobody care?

[infekt]

After an additional separate installation, on the same server, this time uploading the files with a different ftp tool, I had no errors.

My first attempts that continually displayed the errors above, all uploads were done with Fetch 4.0.3 FTP.

This last installation with no errors, I used FireFTP, the Firefox extention.

What would be happening with Fetch that would cause a "Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: invalid UTF-8 string at offset 19 in…" ????

[John Moore]

I have encountered an number of the same issues (and spent many hours finding a solution). Your post was helpful in that it pointed me in the right direction. Though I also use Fetch I notice that there are several "Validate" regex that are choking.

static public function isName($name)
   {
       return preg_match('/^[^0-9!<>,;?=+()@#"°{}_$%:]*$/ui', stripslashes($name));
   }

..if changed to :

static public function isName($name)
   {
       return preg_match('/^[^0-9!<>,;?=+()@#{}_$%:]*$/ui', stripslashes($name));
   }

then works fine..

There are several others that have the ["°] combination and those need to be cleaned up as well.. I did find that tripping over this issue is specific to certain PHP configurations. I have yet to determine exactly what that configuration difference is..

Hope this helps someone else...