spaces in user name

shwagman

i run a small networking site with blogs and such. my problem is when a user/member has a name like ( Radiohead Fan ) with a space between the two words my blog area for users blog come up with a white page. if the user name is
just one word like ( shwag ) it loads up the users blogs fine. the url shows up like so.

http://www.callingallfreaks.com/blog/?Radiohead%20Fan ( shows up white )
http://www.callingallfreaks.com/blog/?shwag ( shows up fine )

is there a code that i can slip into the blog index to make it show users with spaces in there names.

this url will let you see http://www.callingallfreaks.com/index.php?pg=blogs

thank you for your time. Shwag

laserlight

shwagman wrote:
my problem is when a user/member has a name like ( Radiohead Fan ) with a space between the two words my blog area for users blog come up with a white page.

When you say "white page", you basically mean that the page is blank, correct?

If so, one possibility is that the display_errors configuration setting is set to off (and rightly so for a script that is "live"), but you have some kind of error related to spaces. What you should do is test on your development machine to find out what is the error message.

djjjozsi

use urlencode()
and urldecode() when you select the blog from the database.
.
or

you might put the blog's ID at the end and not its name.

laserlight

djjjozsi wrote:
use urlencode()

Yes, that would be a good idea, though in this case shwagman appears to have used rawurlencode(), or the browser encoded the space automatically. In either case, this alone is unlikely to solve the problem, so we need to see what is the actual error message.

djjjozsi wrote:
and urldecode() when you select the blog from the database.

That would be unnecessary (and possibly even wrong) since the client (browser) will decode the URL automatically.

NogDog

The blank page would seem to indicate a parse error of some sort. This could be caused by something like using the supplied user name value as an array index without quoting it: with no spaces it would only generate a notice-level error, but with a space it would be a fatal parse error. But that's pure speculation at this point. As LL suggests, you really need to either review the error logs to find out exactly where things are breaking, or else change your PHP config to turn on display_errors and set error_reporting to E_ALL. (It's not sufficient to do so within the script via ini_set(), as that will not be processed if there is a parse error.)

shwagman

ok ive checked all error logs. nothing is coming up. last error i had states in may of 08. and most of those errors came from a server transfer.

ive found the place where it makes the url for USER's Blogs
<?=$siteurl?>/blog/?<? echo getname($uid); ?>

to help here is the blog set up

when a member enters a blog it saves it self under blod_id on the server.
when a member clicks on your blogs it shows them there blogs even when
a space is in the user name because it shows as another index
/index.php?pg=blogs1
basically blogs.php is what everyone sees and blog1.php is what the users see's
i found <?=$siteurl?>/blog/?<? echo getname($uid); ?> in the blogs1 folder because on the your blogs page it give the url of your blogs so when another member want to see your blogs they click on user's blogs and it shows
in the address bar the site name / blog/ ? username, but with spaces in the name it adds the %20 for the space. the few browsers ive tried automatically show the %20.

The pages that come up with %20 are blank just shows
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

any page that comes up with out the space in the name. comes up with full coded pages with info.

the urldecode() where whould this be placed if used?

much thanks to the ones who have helped thus far.
in the mean time im going to try and find the error or break in code.

laserlight

shwagman wrote:
in the address bar the site name / blog/ ? username, but with spaces in the name it adds the %20 for the space. the few browsers ive tried automatically show the %20.

But that should be correct since a space is rawurlencoded as %20.

shwagman wrote:
The pages that come up with %20 are blank just shows

If it was some kind of formatting error I would expect that the page would contain part of the expected HTML. All this still points to some parse error, unfortunately. Something is not tallying somewhere... did you check that you are actually logging errors?

shwagman

If it was some kind of formatting error I would expect that the page would contain part of the expected HTML. All this still points to some parse error, unfortunately. Something is not tallying somewhere... did you check that you are actually logging errors?

I am logging errors. made sure a few times. seems to be working good.
i wondering if would be something in the register area ... maybe ill try to follow the username from start to finish. do you think theres anything i can change in the data base so it sees the space?

again thanks for all your help.

Weedpacket

The output isn't entirely blank - there are 26 bytes of gzipped stuff there, but it's corrupted and can't be unpacked.