Strange GET results - maybe I need rawurlencode() help please

[leegold2]

How do I use rawurlencode()? A snippet would extremely appreciated.
I read I should use it twice for plus signs(?) - I need help! Thanks.

Very strange stuff happens when I use GET to pass
a string like '+high +altitude'. Literally that's my
(a legitimate) test string in a Mysql Boolean Fulltext search.
Other non alplas are also causing strangeness. Not at first
from my user search form, but during pagination of the results,
as I GET the search string to further pages down the line to maintain
state the trouble starts. I think the literal '+' in the string gets
hosed by GET process.

key_word is +high +altitude for example:

echo "<a href=\"search_t est2.php?key_wo rd=$key_word&pa ge=" . ($page - 1)
.. "\">Previou s</a>";

Then:
$key_word = $_GET['key_word'];
$page = $_GET['page'];

Thanks,
Lee G.

[steve]

Re: Strange GET results - maybe I need rawurlencode() help ple

"leegold2" wrote:[color=blue]
> How do I use rawurlencode()? A snippet would extremely appreciated.
> I read I should use it twice for plus signs(?) - I need help![/color]
Thanks.[color=blue]
>
> Very strange stuff happens when I use GET to pass
> a string like ’+high +altitude’. Literally that’s my
> (a legitimate) test string in a Mysql Boolean Fulltext search.
> Other non alplas are also causing strangeness. Not at first
> from my user search form, but during pagination of the results,
> as I GET the search string to further pages down the line to[/color]
maintain[color=blue]
> state the trouble starts. I think the literal ’+’ in the
> string gets
> hosed by GET process.
>
> key_word is +high +altitude for example:
>
> echo "<a href=\"search_t est2.php?key_wo rd=$key_word&pa ge=" .
> ($page - 1)
> .. "\">Previou s</a>";
>
> Then:
> $key_word = $_GET[’key_word’];
> $page = $_GET[’page’];
>
> Thanks,
> Lee G.[/color]

Leegod, as I indicated in the prior thread (see urlencode below)..

echo "<a href=\"search_t est2.php?key_wo rd=" . urlencode($key_ word)
"&page=" . ($page - 1)
.. "\">Previou s</a>";

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[leegold2]

Re: Strange GET results - maybe I need rawurlencode() help ple


Steve, thanks. I did your recommendation and it works!
[color=blue]
> "leegold2" wrote:[color=green]
> > How do I use rawurlencode()? A snippet would extremely appreciated.
> > I read I should use it twice for plus signs(?) - I need help![/color]
> Thanks.[color=green]
> >
> > Very strange stuff happens when I use GET to pass
> > a string like ’+high +altitude’. Literally that’s my
> > (a legitimate) test string in a Mysql Boolean Fulltext search.
> > Other non alplas are also causing strangeness. Not at first
> > from my user search form, but during pagination of the results,
> > as I GET the search string to further pages down the line to[/color]
> maintain[color=green]
> > state the trouble starts. I think the literal ’+’ in the
> > string gets
> > hosed by GET process.
> >
> > key_word is +high +altitude for example:
> >
> > echo "<a href=\"search_t est2.php?key_wo rd=$key_word&pa ge=" .
> > ($page - 1)
> > .. "\">Previou s</a>";
> >
> > Then:
> > $key_word = $_GET[’key_word’];
> > $page = $_GET[’page’];
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lee G.[/color]
>
> Leegod, as I indicated in the prior thread (see urlencode below)..
>
> echo "<a href=\"search_t est2.php?key_wo rd=" . urlencode($key_ word)
> "&page=" . ($page - 1)
> . "\">Previou s</a>";
>[/color]