Passing multiple words in a link

Anon

I have written a search engine for a web site I am working on. I wanted to set up the results to span multiple pages when necessary, so i created links similar to google (http://www.google.com) with a prev, 1,2,3,4 etc, and next to display when applicable.

When only one word is typed into the search box and the query is sent, everything works fine including my links (which by the way use $PHP_SELF as the main target).

When I set them up without using urlencode(), only the first word of the string is passed to all subsequent pages, but the query still works fine (ie, all results are returned as expected).

However, when i use urlencode to replace the spaces and special characters with %x, the LINKS are created with the proper code (internet+design). When I use the link, the next page uses urldecode() to remove the special characters, which returns the string "internet design". However, when this is run through the query, ZERO results are displayed.

I did an md5() on the strings, both on the first time through and the second, and they line up...so i assume the strings are exactly the same after the encode() and decode(). Any ideas? I am totally stumped.

Thank you.

rrijnders

If you are setting up the links so that the data is sent as url encoded variables:

or something to that affect, then you should not have to use urldecode() on the page. When the script runs from the above link, the value of $keyword should already by 'dog' or 'internet design' or whatever. The whole point of url encoding the link is so that the cgi interface of your web server can properly decode it and pass the data values to your script.

-- Rich Rijnders
-- Irvine, CA US

Anon

I was only using urlencode() because it made the string without the spaces, which is what my links seem to be choking on.

If the query was 'dog', it would work flawlessly.

However, if the query was 'dog house', the link would look like the following:

The space and house are missing.

I tried to enclose the string in both '' and "", but it still truncated at the space.

When I urlencode() 'dog house', the link comes out as expected:

and when I urldecode() $searchWords, it is once again 'dog house'.

There is nothing in the script to prevent it from working once with 2 words, and not the second time since the script is called both times...there is something happening when the value is passed (I assume) and I need help figuring out what 🙂

Anon

Forgot to pass my And/Or variable, so all queries were defaulting to AND instead of OR.