SugarCRM, SOAP and ampersand (&)

[jme]

Hello.

We have developed a Drupal-based system that allows the user to update SugarCRM account details over SOAP.

The current problem is that ampersand (6) characters seems to be stripped. When we set a company's name to "Foo & bar" it is saved but when reviewing the account in SugarCRM the value is now "Foo Bar", I have tried using & but to no help (& becomes amp; ).

Am I missunderstaning something or am I just plain stupid?

Thanks,

jme

[detour]

I have a SOAP syncronization script playing nicely with ampersand. I'm using the PHP5 SoapClient interface and had to do some finageling to get it to work properly. My initialization starts something like this:

		$soapClient = new SoapClient(null, array(        
	        'location' => 'http://localhost/sugarcrm_path/soap.php',
		    'uri' => 'http://www.sugarcrm.com/sugarcrm',
	    	'soap_version'   => SOAP_1_1, //SOAP_1_2 - 1.2 not supported by sugar nusoap
		    'trace' => 1,
		    'exceptions' => 0,
	    	//'compression' => SOAP_COMPRESSION_ACCEPT | SOAP_COMPRESSION_GZIP | 5
		));

Also, I had to wrap all my input params with utf8_encode() and trim() like this:

$parameters = array(
			array(
				'name' => 'name', 
				'value' => utf8_encode(trim($name))
                        ),
// more params here....
);

Be sure to see:
http://www.beanizer.org/site/index.p...cations-I.html
http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2008/...P-API-Examples
for useful examples. GL

[jme]

Thanks. I'll try the utf8_encode() tomorrow.

[jme]

No change. I first thought the utf8_encode() might do the trick but no. I also tried to use soap_version and SOAP_1_1 but no. Would you by chance have another posible solution?