string into array and back

zzz

I need to pass a string (long name, for example) in URL.

Currently I can add it like this:

$url = '../some/url/page.php?action=pass&var=something&name=Bob William Jake Marcus II

but I need to pass each part of the name as a separate variable and then assemble the full name on the other side (page.php).

I need it to look like this:

$url = '../some/url/page.php?action=pass&var=something&name1=Bob&name2=William&name3=Jake&name4=Marcus&name5=II

And on the page.php I need to take all these variables, name1 - name5 and assemble into

$name = 'Bob William Jake Marcus II';

How do i do that? I'm a bit confused...

NogDog

Might I ask why you need to do that? Why break it into separate parts if you are just going to join it back together once you receive it?

If there is no functional reason for doing so, I would just suggest that you [man]urlencode/man the value:

$url = 'http:/blah/blah/blah?var=foobar&name=' . urlencode($name);

laserlight

Why do you need to pass each part as a separate variable if you are just going to reassemble them back?

I ask this because from what I see, the tough part is deciding how you want to break the name up into variables, since names come in many different formats, and then actually breaking it up. Reassembling is just a simple matter of concatenation.

zzz

Sorry, it seems I took a wrong path again. My URL is encode by another script. It seems that the encoded string became too long and my script on the receiving page did not work. What I really need is something to make it shorter. As of now I see only two alternatives:

Encode the name to make it shorter (can't think of any function that can do that).
Forget about passing name in URL and pass only ID, which will enable me to retrieve name on page.php from db using passed ID. Not a prefered solution but I see no other option...

zzz

I decided since I already have $userName an $userId where I append them to URL, I'll strip those from the URL and will be passing them in session.

$_SESSION['userName'][$userId] = $userName;

I think it should do.

mblack0508

zzz;10925602 wrote:
I decided since I already have $userName an $userId where I append them to URL, I'll strip those from the URL and will be passing them in session.
$_SESSION['userName'][$userId] = $userName;
I think it should do.

I'm not quite following you here. Since the session is unique to each client why dont you just do

$_SESSION['username'] = $username;
$_SESSION['userid'] = $userid;