pass var or echo it??

techmeister

Hi all:

I have a ludicrousely easy problem: I have a news title with a link to view 'more'. Whatever the news item is the link will take you to the same news item in full:

This works In IE and not in Nutscrape?? Has anyone come across this before?? if so, care to impart any info??

Cheers.
Russ

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This should work perfectly well in netscape.
Look for an error elsewhere.

techmeister

Vincent:

In MSIE I hover over the link in question and in the status bar appears the title of the article as if I'd echoes it to the page.

When I follow the link, the page is now news.php?article=title%20more%2otitle%20etc

It inserts '%20' as a whitespace marker, where NS4 doesn't and therefore I reckon it can't recognise it as a valid url - is it possible to add '%20' between any words of an article's title so that NS4 will accept it?

Cheers for your help.
Russ

PS look at it yourself in IE and NS: www.apu.ac.uk/sport (The link is the 'find out more>>' on the right).

Anon

try this...
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php

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Allmost.. :-)

use urlencode().

techmeister

Sweetas guys!

Here's what I did:

and then in the news.php page:
urldecode($article);

Cheers:

Russ

Anon

yes... i took the underlying url :-))

gregj

Why are you passing the title as your primary?

Don't get me wrong, You found a very good solution to your problem, but it's a problem that you can avoid.

...My point is that if you pass an id number instead of your title you can eliminate some sloppy coding & work from a better data model. You won't have to manipulate the string to pass it in the URL then correct it for your select statement. You will never have to worry about duplicating the title...

However you choose to handle this obstacle, I'm sure that your project will turn out great. You seem very resourceful. I'm no expert myself, but I am fortunate enough to work with someone with amazing knowledge of data models.