[Resolved] String cut when using include() function

spoons84

Im sending a query address from one file to another, in which a picture will be picked out by the second file.

This works fine on most query addresses in using the include function but for some reason the address is cut short at &.

So, the query address:

http://www.argos.co.uk/Search?storeId=10001&searchTerms=

is cut to:

http://www.argos.co.uk/Search?storeId=10001

Ive tried replacing the &'s with "&" but they dont seem to change, and htmlspecialchars($search) doesnt seem to do anything.

Is there a way i can encode the string and then de-code it once its reached the second file?

Cheers

terfle

not 100% sure why its doing that, but maybe this will help

<?php

/* This example assumes that [url]www.example.com[/url] is configured to parse .php
 * files and not .txt files. Also, 'Works' here means that the variables
 * $foo and $bar are available within the included file. */

// Won't work; file.txt wasn't handled by [url]www.example.com[/url] as PHP
include 'http://www.example.com/file.txt?foo=1&bar=2';

// Won't work; looks for a file named 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2' on the
// local filesystem.
include 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

// Works.
include 'http://www.example.com/file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

$foo = 1;
$bar = 2;
include 'file.txt';  // Works.
include 'file.php';  // Works.

?>

bpat1434

Do you have code to go along with it? I would love to help, but without seeing what is going on, I can't deduce what your problem is.

My guess would be, you're not surrounding the url in quotes. But that wouldn't seem right.

Have you tried:
-- Replace "&" with "&"
-- Write the URL to a variable(s)
-- Researched url_encode();

urlencode
(PHP 3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)
urlencode -- URL-encodes string
Description
string urlencode ( string str )

Returns a string in which all non-alphanumeric characters except -_. have been replaced with a percent (%) sign followed by two hex digits and spaces encoded as plus (+) signs. It is encoded the same way that the posted data from a WWW form is encoded, that is the same way as in application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type. This differs from the RFC1738 encoding (see rawurlencode()) in that for historical reasons, spaces are encoded as plus (+) signs. This function is convenient when encoding a string to be used in a query part of a URL, as a convenient way to pass variables to the next page:

~Brett

spoons84

I read urlencode() before but i didnt think it would work correctly, but tried it again, and hey presto!

From what i can work out, you cant parse & or + signs across files, and so encoding them helps, just have to decode it on the other side.

Cheers for your help!!