[RESOLVED] Reading $name as string from functionname($name)

middleman666

Hi All,

I'm not sure what the correct words are to search for this issue so wondered if you kind people could help?

$name = 'Joe Bloggs';

function logname($name) {
     return $name;
}

$loggedname = logname($name);

Trouble is, $loggedname comes back as 'Joe' rather than 'Joe Bloggs'.

Is there a way around this? or am I doing something silly?

Cheers

laserlight

Wait, are you saying that that script demonstrates the problem?

middleman666

Sorry, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Your correct, that script does work - I thought it would be a failing example of what I'm actually doing, but apparently not.

Is there any reason why a string passed via a function might chop off anything past the space in that string?

laserlight

No, but one situation where such a thing might happen is if you forgot to quote your HTML form element value attribute values.

middleman666

I'm passing the string in the url like:

$name = 'Joe Bloggs';
$URL = "http://dummydomain.com/index.php?name=$name"

and using

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
$response = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

To send it to a API script which is supposed to deal with it, but that script is reading the $_GET['name'] value as 'Joe' and not 'Joe Bloggs'

Does any of that seem like it might be causing the issue?

Sorry about being vague, it's just that the script is part of a massive project so I'm trying to keep the examples as simple as possible.

Thanks

laserlight

Perhaps you should urlencode() or rawurlencode() the query string.

middleman666

rawurlencode() worked! Thank you laserlight, forever getting me out of trouble!

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