urlencode and $_GET

[meltedown]

urlencode turns # into %23
When I sent it thru $_GET, it dissapears, along with anything that comes
after it.

for example:
urlencode turns
HOYDM_EXC_#4_NA T
into HOYDM_EXC_%234_ NAT

When I use it in an url
index.php?id=HO YDM_EXC_%234_NA T

$_GET[id]=HOYDM_EXC_

Am I doing something wrong ?

[Erwin Moller]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

meltedown wrote:

Hi,
[color=blue]
> urlencode turns # into %23[/color]

Yes.
[color=blue]
> When I sent it thru $_GET, it dissapears, along with anything that comes
> after it.[/color]

What does that mean?
"sending through $_GET" ???
Do you mean you use some URL?

You do not send anything through $_GET, you use $_GET to retrieve values
encoded in GET.
[color=blue]
>
> for example:
> urlencode turns
> HOYDM_EXC_#4_NA T
> into HOYDM_EXC_%234_ NAT
>[/color]

yes.
[color=blue]
> When I use it in an url
> index.php?id=HO YDM_EXC_%234_NA T
>
> $_GET[id]=HOYDM_EXC_
>
> Am I doing something wrong ?[/color]

Yes.

If you want the value of 'id' from the URL (GET) use:

$bla = $_GET["id"];

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[black francis]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

try NOT encoding the original url (it's the browser's job), but DO
decode the "incoming" url.

[meltedown]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

Erwin Moller wrote:[color=blue]
> meltedown wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>[color=green]
>>urlencode turns # into %23[/color]
>
>
> Yes.
>
>[color=green]
>>When I sent it thru $_GET, it dissapears, along with anything that comes
>>after it.[/color]
>
>
> What does that mean?
> "sending through $_GET" ???
> Do you mean you use some URL?
>
> You do not send anything through $_GET, you use $_GET to retrieve values
> encoded in GET.[/color]

And how does it get there- you send it there. So you are sending it
throught $_GET[color=blue]
>
>[color=green]
>>for example:
>>urlencode turns
>>HOYDM_EXC_#4_ NAT
>>into HOYDM_EXC_%234_ NAT
>>[/color]
>
>
> yes.
>
>[color=green]
>>When I use it in an url
>>index.php?id= HOYDM_EXC_%234_ NAT
>>
>>$_GET[id]=HOYDM_EXC_
>>
>>Am I doing something wrong ?[/color]
>
>
> Yes.
>
> If you want the value of 'id' from the URL (GET) use:
>
> $bla = $_GET["id"];[/color]

Yes of course I know that- I'm not talking about getting the value from
$_GET. I am saying that the value of $_GET is equal to "HOYDM_EXC_ ". Its
obvious what I meant. The point is, the end of the string is missing.
Do you now whether this is a common problem ?[color=blue]
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller
>[/color]

[meltedown]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

black francis wrote:[color=blue]
> try NOT encoding the original url (it's the browser's job), but DO
> decode the "incoming" url.
>[/color]
I tried this even though it doesn't make any sense.
Browsers don't do anything to #. As far as I can see, it is not the
browsers job to encode anything in the url. #'s are not allowed in URLs.
Thats what urlencode() is for, and it works fine. The question is: why
doesn't %23 and everything after it make it to $_GET ?

[meltedown]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

meltedown wrote:[color=blue]
> black francis wrote:
>[color=green]
>> try NOT encoding the original url (it's the browser's job), but DO
>> decode the "incoming" url.
>>[/color]
> I tried this even though it doesn't make any sense.
> Browsers don't do anything to #. As far as I can see, it is not the
> browsers job to encode anything in the url. #'s are not allowed in URLs.[/color]

clarificatin: # are allowed in urls, but only as part of an anchor
identifyer.
[color=blue]
> Thats what urlencode() is for, and it works fine. The question is: why
> doesn't %23 and everything after it make it to $_GET ?[/color]

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

meltedown wrote:[color=blue]
> Erwin Moller wrote:
>[color=green]
>> meltedown wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> urlencode turns # into %23[/color]
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> When I sent it thru $_GET, it dissapears, along with anything that comes
>>> after it.[/color]
>>
>>
>>
>> What does that mean?
>> "sending through $_GET" ???
>> Do you mean you use some URL?
>>
>> You do not send anything through $_GET, you use $_GET to retrieve
>> values encoded in GET.[/color]
>
>
> And how does it get there- you send it there. So you are sending it
> throught $_GET
>[color=green]
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> for example:
>>> urlencode turns
>>> HOYDM_EXC_#4_NA T
>>> into HOYDM_EXC_%234_ NAT
>>>[/color]
>>
>>
>> yes.
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> When I use it in an url
>>> index.php?id=HO YDM_EXC_%234_NA T
>>>
>>> $_GET[id]=HOYDM_EXC_
>>>
>>> Am I doing something wrong ?[/color]
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> If you want the value of 'id' from the URL (GET) use:
>>
>> $bla = $_GET["id"];[/color]
>
>
> Yes of course I know that- I'm not talking about getting the value from
> $_GET. I am saying that the value of $_GET is equal to "HOYDM_EXC_ ". Its
> obvious what I meant. The point is, the end of the string is missing.
> Do you now whether this is a common problem ?
>[color=green]
>>
>> Regards,
>> Erwin Moller
>>[/color][/color]

Can you post your code?

I've encoded a '#' before with no problems at all.

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[M. Trausch]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

meltedown wrote:[color=blue]
>
> clarificatin: # are allowed in urls, but only as part of an anchor
> identifyer.
>[color=green]
>> Thats what urlencode() is for, and it works fine. The question is: why
>> doesn't %23 and everything after it make it to $_GET ?[/color]
>[/color]

That's because the browser treats %23 as #... e.g., you cannot use that
character, as it's local to the browser as a named-anchor. Use a
different character. The browser treats all URL escaped characters *as
the character it is*, so you can encode spaces and ~ and all sorts of
other things into the URL.

- Mike

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[meltedown]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

Jerry Stuckle wrote:[color=blue]
> Can you post your code?
>
> I've encoded a '#' before with no problems at all.
>[/color]
Thanks for telling me that. Apparently, this not a common problem but
something wrong with my code. After you told me that, I did this simple
example.

http://reenie.org/test/test16.php?value=start%23end

After you hit the link, it says
$_GET is:Array ( [value] => start#end )
#end is not missing, so it works fine

Here's the code for the example
echo "\$_GET is:";
print_r($_GET);
echo "<br>\n";
$value="start#e nd";
echo "value is:$value<br>\n ";
$value=urlencod e($value);
echo "value after urlencode is:$value<br>\n ";
echo "<a href='?value=". $value."'>test link</a>";

I'm still trying to figure out how to make an example of the original
problem.

[Erwin Moller]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

meltedown wrote:

<snip>
[color=blue]
>
> And how does it get there- you send it there. So you are sending it
> throught $_GET[/color]

Well, I had the impression you didn't understand that part.
But appearantly you do.
[color=blue][color=green]
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>>for example:
>>>urlencode turns
>>>HOYDM_EXC_#4 _NAT
>>>into HOYDM_EXC_%234_ NAT
>>>[/color]
>>
>>
>> yes.
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>>When I use it in an url
>>>index.php?id =HOYDM_EXC_%234 _NAT
>>>
>>>$_GET[id]=HOYDM_EXC_[/color][/color][/color]

This part is where you confused me.
It looks like you want to ADD stuff to the $_GET-array, which doesn't make
much sense.

[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>
>>>Am I doing something wrong ?[/color]
>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> If you want the value of 'id' from the URL (GET) use:
>>
>> $bla = $_GET["id"];[/color]
>
> Yes of course I know that- I'm not talking about getting the value from
> $_GET. I am saying that the value of $_GET is equal to "HOYDM_EXC_ ". Its
> obvious what I meant. The point is, the end of the string is missing.
> Do you now whether this is a common problem ?[/color]

I do not see the problem to be honest.
I just tested on my own machine (PHP5) the follwing:

http://bla.bla.bla/test.php?id=HJUYH_%234_NAT

from php.test:

$id = $_GET["id"];
// ID now contains HJUYH_#4_NAT

Which is excactly what is expected.

So show us some more code.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[meltedown]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

M. Trausch wrote:[color=blue]
> meltedown wrote:
>[color=green]
>>clarificati n: # are allowed in urls, but only as part of an anchor
>>identifyer.
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>>Thats what urlencode() is for, and it works fine. The question is: why
>>>doesn't %23 and everything after it make it to $_GET ?[/color]
>>[/color]
>
> That's because the browser treats %23 as #...[/color]
Right. but its a # which is not an anchor.
e.g., you cannot use that[color=blue]
> character, as it's local to the browser as a named-anchor. Use a
> different character. The browser treats all URL escaped characters *as
> the character it is*,[/color]
Yes that's what I want it to do.
You can use that charactar as something besided an anchor, as long as it
is encoded. See the example I just posted in this thread.

so you can encode spaces and ~ and all sorts of[color=blue]
> other things into the URL.
>
> - Mike
>[/color]

[Oli Filth]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

M. Trausch said the following on 17/11/2005 14:22:[color=blue]
> meltedown wrote:
>[color=green]
>>clarificati n: # are allowed in urls, but only as part of an anchor
>>identifyer.
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>>Thats what urlencode() is for, and it works fine. The question is: why
>>>doesn't %23 and everything after it make it to $_GET ?[/color]
>>[/color]
>
> That's because the browser treats %23 as #... e.g., you cannot use that
> character, as it's local to the browser as a named-anchor.[/color]

What? No it doesn't.



--
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[meltedown]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

Erwin Moller wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I do not see the problem to be honest.
> I just tested on my own machine (PHP5) the follwing:
>
> http://bla.bla.bla/test.php?id=HJUYH_%234_NAT
>
> from php.test:
>
> $id = $_GET["id"];
> // ID now contains HJUYH_#4_NAT
>
> Which is excactly what is expected.
>
> So show us some more code.
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller
>
>[/color]
Right, I believe you. I know what it is now. Its not a PHP problem, its
a mod rewrite problem. Sorry, I left it out because I was trying not to
complicate my explaination.

if I use

http://thecigar-auction.com/item.php?id=SANROSA_%234_NAT

it works fine.

but if I use:

http://thecigar-auction.com/santa-rosa-no-4-natural/SANROSA_%234_NAT.html

The last part gets tuncated into SANROSA_

Here's the rewrite rule :
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /item.php?id=$2& cname=$1

The second ([^/])+ is the culprit, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
Presumably, it doesn't recognize %

Right now I have fixed the problem with a hack
$id=preg_replac e("|#|",'_PDSGN _',$id);
So this example now looks like:

http://thecigar-auction.com/santa-rosa-no-4-natural/SANROSA__PDSGN_4_NAT.html

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

meltedown wrote:[color=blue]
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Can you post your code?
>>
>> I've encoded a '#' before with no problems at all.
>>[/color]
> Thanks for telling me that. Apparently, this not a common problem but
> something wrong with my code. After you told me that, I did this simple
> example.
>
> http://reenie.org/test/test16.php?value=start%23end
> After you hit the link, it says
> $_GET is:Array ( [value] => start#end )
> #end is not missing, so it works fine
>
> Here's the code for the example
> echo "\$_GET is:";
> print_r($_GET);
> echo "<br>\n";
> $value="start#e nd";
> echo "value is:$value<br>\n ";
> $value=urlencod e($value);
> echo "value after urlencode is:$value<br>\n ";
> echo "<a href='?value=". $value."'>test link</a>";
>
> I'm still trying to figure out how to make an example of the original
> problem.[/color]

Yes, it looks like it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do.

I suspect a logic problem in your code. Look at the URL in your browser
bar in your original code. It should have something like:

http://www.example.com?value=start%23end

If instead of the "%23" you have a "#", the problem is you didn't get it
encoded properly. OTOH, if it you have something like "?value=" or
"?value=sta rt" you probably didn't get the string concatenated properly.

You can also look at the HTML source for the page you're linking from.
There you should see:

<a href="http://www.example.com/testpage?value= start%23end">te st link</a>

These things can be difficult to find sometimes!

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[black francis]

Re: urlencode and $_GET

again, it's the browser the one who 'encodes' the url, not you.

try-n-see:
<a href="example.p hp?var=one word"> turns into
"example.php?va r=one+word" in the address bar.

what you should never use un a url is an ampersand (use &amp; instead
of &), any other character is encoded by the browser.