[Resolved] Problem Using form submissions in URL

[2hawks]

Greetings.

I have a project that takes user input via a standard html form, then queries another website using the information provided by the user, embedded in the URL.

This works great for single word queries, but any query with a space in it failes horribly. I have tried replacing spaces with %20 but these insertions don't work with the website I am attempting to Query. I have searched the forums here and other websites, and am at a complete loss. Yes, the multiple words do exist in the target location, and I can test it successfuly on the older versions.

has anyone else out there encountered this issue? A sample of the code follows:

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	$kount=$hits[0][$hit_count]; $keywordz=$phraze[0][$hit_count]; 

// Remember we have to clean the HTML tags off the last 4 chars of $keywordz
// We also need to be able to choose multiple words in the form submissions.
$keywordz=strrev($keywordz); $keywordz=substr($keywordz, 4); $keywordz=strrev($keywordz);
$keywordz=str_replace(" ", "%20", $keywordz); // Add %20 for URL

	$loadurl="http://www.url.to.load.com?_function=available&desiredKeyword=".$keywordz;
	$start=$keywordz."</b>"; $stop=100; 
	$availability = file_get_contents ($loadurl);					
	$start=strpos($availability, $start); $len=strpos($availability, $stop); 
	$quantas=substr($availability, $start, $stop); 
	$quantaz = explode(" ", $quantas);
	// echo $quantaz[2];



	$keywordz=str_replace("%20", " ", $keywordz); // remove %20 for display
	echo "<tr><td>".$quantaz[2]."</td><td>".$kount."</td><td>".$keywordz."</td></tr>\n"; $hit_count++;

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It's messy I know, I am just trying to get it to work, then I plan on cleaning it up.

Any Takers? Ideas?

2Hawks

[Frederick]

instead of using:
$keywordz=str_replace("%20", " ", $keywordz); // remove %20 for display

use:
$keywordz=ereg_replace("%20", " ", $keywordz); // remove %20 for display

[Weedpacket]

What do you mean "fails horribly"? Are you, for example, even sure that $keywordz contains what it should?

PS:

$keywordz=strrev($keywordz); $keywordz=substr($keywordz, 4); $keywordz=strrev($keywordz);

=>

$keywords=substr($keywordz,0,-4);

[2hawks]

Ack, It's amazing the difference a full nights sleep makes.

I took another look at that and I see what you mean. I redid everything this morning and it works now. Thanks for the question, and the snippett of code too. I assume a negative number takes chars off the right side of the string? I must re-read the book methinks.

Thanks for the respone, it was very helpful. Here's how the code cleaned up:

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$keywordz=substr($keywordz, 0, -4); $keywordz=str_replace(" ", "+", $keywordz);
$loadurl="http://www.url-to.clean-up.com?function=available&desiredKeyword=$keywordz";
$keywordz=str_replace("+", " ", $keywordz);

$availability = file_get_contents ($loadurl);	
	// Cut much of the head off this b!tch: 2358
$availability=substr($availability, 2358, 2000);
$start="$keywordz</b>"; $stop=100; $start=strpos($availability, $start); 
$availability=substr($availability, $start, $stop); 
$availability=strip_tags($availability);
$availability=str_replace($keywordz, "phrase", $availability);
$availability = explode(" ", $availability);

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In the last few lines I am extracting a single word that says either 'NOT' or 'available' and using those words to determine the color $keywordz will be displayed in.

('class=$availability[2]')

Thanks Again.
2Hawks