creating own subprofile...

Anon

don't worry, i'm not asking a huge general question such as "how do i create my own subprofile?". i seem to get stuch as to how subprofile does NOT get an error when the screen name (%n) has spaces in it. when you target=self in the AIM browser, the internal browser does not automatically insert %20 where the spaces are, thus it gives you an error. someone suggested this:
[in profile:]
<a href="yourwebsite.com/profile.php?sn=%n&a=b" target="self">Profile</a>
[in profile.php:]
<?php
if($a!='b') {
$sn2 = split('&', getenv('SERVER_PROTOCOL'));
$sn=$sn." ".$sn2[0];
}
?>
however, this php code does not work for me. so if anyone can figure out how to get a screen name (with spaces) without getting an error, please let me know.

cahva

Im not sure what are you aiming at but to my knowledge, use htmlentities() function to convert the spaces and other html characters so that you can use them in the fields.

Anon

well, considering that you cannot use php in your own profile, i don't think this will work. let me clarify my problem:

assume my screen name is "coolguy." in AIM, there are many ways to format this, so let's see 2 examples:

case 1: %n="coolguy"
case 2: %n="cool guy"
(%n being AIM's built-in function of reading someone's screen name)

<a href="yourwebsite.com/profile.php?sn=%n&a=b">Profile</a>
in this case, an external browser (like IE) will open it, and both cases works.

<a href="yourwebsite.com/profile.php?sn=%n&a=b" target="_self">Profile</a>
however, in this case, the internal browser (AIM) opens it. the first case works, but because there is a space in case 2, that does not work.

somehow, websites that are dedicated in doing this (subprofile, IMchaos, etc) have found a way around this, even for case 2...