browser compatability

bmyster

Im developing some php3 pages for work..i got the pages working great in IE 5 but having issues with Netscape and the way it seems to deal with spaces when trying to import from a field.
the structure is like this..i have a page that has all the info from my database...but often i have to update it...so i wrote a page that grabs data from whatever fields and puts them in a form ...so i can edit the data...then i submit it...and there ya go updated data. Whenever Netscape runs into a space in the data it stops parsing and leaves the remaining form empty. help??

Thanx Brent

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Netscape is very scrict about HTML code. Could it be that there is some missing tag (table/tr/td) somewhere?

bmyster

this is the code im using...it works great under IE...not so good on Netscape

printf("<TR><TD><a href=\"update.php3?id=%s&TimeNow=%s&FirstName=%s&HostName=%s&Request=%s&Completed=%s&CompletedBy=%s&WorkDone=%s$
$myrow["id"], $myrow["TimeNow"], $myrow["FirstName"], $myrow["HostName"], $myrow["Request"],
$myrow["Completed"], $myrow["CompletedBy"], $myrow["WorkDone"], $myrow["id"], $myrow["TimeNow"], $myrow["FirstName"],
$myrow["HostName"], $myrow["Request"], $myrow["Completed"], $myrow["CompletedBy"], $myrow["WorkDone"]);

any help is MOST appreciated
B

yelvington

You probably are passing malformed URLs that contain spaces. See the manual page on urlencode().

bmyster

ok i looked it up...the example shows this...how would i use it in my page?

$a = split ('&', $querystring);
$i = 0;
while ($i < count ($a)) {
$b = split ('=', $a [$i]);
echo 'Value for parameter ', htmlspecialchars (urldecode ($b [0])),
' is ', htmlspecialchars (urldecode ($b [1])), "<BR>";
$i++;
}

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This is for decoding. Make sure you don't create any links with spaces in it.
For example, this will not work:

$my_var= "hello, this is a string with spaces";
echo '<a href=\"http://www.bla.com/script.php?this='.$my_var.'>click here</a>';

you can get rid of the spaces using urlencode()

$myURL=http://www.bla.com/script.php?this='.$my_var;
$myURL=urlencode($myURL);
echo '<a href='.$myURL.'>click here</a>'

Then in script.php the url will be decoded automatically by php, and the spaces re-appear where they should have been, but inside the vars.
So $this would contain "hello, this is a string with spaces"