problem with str_replace

[vinny69]

hi,
i am having problems with the "str_replace" code

i am working on an xbox forum and it will get your gamerDetails

i have an input box with the name "GamerTag" and my form is set to GET

but if you have spaces in your Gamertag it replaces them with a "+"

E.G. index.php?GamerTag=1+2+3

but i want them to be "%20"

E.G. index.php?GamerTag=1%202%203

i used this code thinking it would work but it doesnt

<?php

if(@$_GET['GamerTag']) {

// i used this to replace + with %20 but it doesn't work
$gamertag = str_replace('+', '%20', $_GET['GamerTag']);

$ch = curl_init("http://xboxapi.duncanmackenzie.net/gamertag.ashx?GamerTag=".$gamertag."");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 4);

$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$xml = new SimpleXmlElement($data, LIBXML_NOCDATA);

print $xml->Gamertag;
print "<br>";
print "".$xml->PresenceInfo->StatusText.": ".$xml->PresenceInfo->Info;
if(@$xml->PresenceInfo->Info2) {
print " - ".$xml->PresenceInfo->Info2;
}
?>

[ASAP]

Try

$gamertag = str_replace(' ', '%20', $_GET['GamerTag']); 

[vinny69]

oh my God, i can't believe it was that simple

Thankyou ASAP

[NogDog]

You could use the [man]rawurlencode/man function.

[nrg_alpha]

NogDog;10924391 wrote:

You could use the [man]rawurlencode/man function.

Hehe.. some solutions are so simple it's almost not funny 😉

[Weedpacket]

Of course, a '+' in a URL means the same thing as a '%20' in the URL: a space.