Retrieving Passed Variables with Spaces in the name.

Arc

This company I am dealing with is passing values to a page using hidden fields. An example of one of those fields is

So I have to get the value of that variable. But how do I do it when the name of the variable has spaces and slashes in it?

I tried using <?php Print $_POST["Odor: Smoke / Mold"]; ?> but I don't get anything to show. I know it has a value. They also pass one word variables such as PAINT which show just fine. It;s the multi word variables with spaces that I am having the problem with.

Any idea how get these values?

Thanks!😃

Arc

Anyone have a clue? Is this even possible? Do I need to tell them to change their code? Any ideas at all?

jreider

have you messed with  
at all? Give it a shot, where you want spaces.

keith73

first thing to try is to see exactly what is coming in via _POST.

foreach ( $_POST as $key => $value ){
    print "$key => $value<br>\n";
}//end foreach

keith

Arc

Dude thanks a lot! When I viewed the Name of the fields in code there were no underscores. But when I did the loop thing and printed them out the underscores showed up. So it turns out there are no spaces.

dalecosp

Originally posted by Arc
Dude thanks a lot! When I viewed the Name of the fields in code there were no underscores. But when I did the loop thing and printed them out the underscores showed up. So it turns out there are no spaces.

Probably there are spaces. Most HTML clients and servers realize that there shouldn't be, though, and encode things automagically.

Compare [man]urlencode/man as an example.

Arc

Cool, that's good to know.