[RESOLVED] Encoded URLS with the $_REQUEST

[mikestoods]

Hi!

Just a quick question to ask about encoded URLs and the $_REQUEST

1) I pass the following URL around:-

http://www.testsite.com/test.php?word1=hello&word2=my&word3=name

$REQUEST("word1") would return "hello"
$REQUEST("word2") would return "my"
$_REQUEST("word3") would return "name"

2) I pass the following URL around:-

http://www.testsite.com/test.php?word1=hello&word2=my&word3=name

$REQUEST("word1") would return "hello"
$REQUEST("word2") would return ""
$_REQUEST("word3") would return ""

So why does PHP not interpret the & from a $GET or $REQUEST ????
I know it's only standards, by Firefox / W3C Standards mean that if you put URLs on pages (i.e. as autolinks to be fired from JS) that this isn't standards complient!

Are there any proper solutions to this, or is it purely a case of reading the entire URL into a global variable, and then manipulating it from that?

Many thanks - Mike

[rincewind456]

http://www.testsite.com/test.php?word1=hello&word2=my&word3=name

Returns

_REQUEST["word1"]	hello
_REQUEST["word2"]	my
_REQUEST["word3"]	name
_GET["word1"]	hello
_GET["word2"]	my
_GET["word3"]	name

http://www.testsite.com/test.php?word1=hello&word2=my&word3=name

Returns

_REQUEST["word1"]	hello
_REQUEST["word2"]	my
_REQUEST["word3"]	name
_GET["word1"]	hello
_GET["word2"]	my
_GET["word3"]	name

as they both should they return the same result

[mikestoods]

Not when I do it 🙁

All i get when I test the output via an echo is just "blank".....

The command I'm using to retrieve, to provide an example is:
echo $_REQUEST['word1'] . "<br>";

In my Apache Log File I then get the following:-

PHP Notice: Undefined index: word1 in C:\.....
PHP Notice: Undefined index: word2 in C:\.....

Is this an issue with my setup???

[rincewind456]

Could be but to check the varaibles it's always better to send them to a test.php that uses phpinfo() like this: test.php

<?php
phpinfo()
?>

then scroll down to the variables, if they aren't there then it must be your setup.

[mikestoods]

What I get from the PHP Info is Very Interesting!!!!

REQUEST["amp;word1"] Test1
REQUEST["amp;word2"] Test2
GET["amp;word1"] Test1
GET["amp;word2"] Test2

Hmmmmm - not that good really....

[rincewind456]

It's losing the ampersand looks like an issue with your apache config or in the php.ini there is a section on Data Handling in the area of line 418 that might have been changed.

[mikestoods]

Many thanks 🙂

I can't believe other people haven't had this problem (or just don't stick to W3C standards!)

The problem was in the PHP ini file - Line 418 ish.
Seeing that it is meant to be a standard, I don't really understand why it is commented out!

Who are we to say heh! 😉

Many thanks again - Mike