Special charachter value not shows

rashid100

Hi,

I am getting the value of some string value including special character from table. Its shows in the address bar but when I echo in php it shows only first word. Could you
please help me. Thanks

My actual Value is Diary & Eggs

In address bar it shows in this format

(some address here)/freshNfruity1/freshNfruity/subProducts.php?selCatagory=6%20+%20&mainCatName=Diary%20&%20Eggs

and in the form I recieved this value using this
$mainCatName = isset($REQUEST['mainCatName'])?$REQUEST['mainCatName']:"";

AND when I use the echo like

echo $mainCatName;

The result is shows only
Diary

Hope you understand my point.

bradgrafelman

The problem is that the URL is incorrect. This:

mainCatName=Diary%20&%20Eggs

should be:

mainCatName=Diary%20%26%20Eggs

In other words, the ampersand is a special character in URLs and must be encoded.

Weedpacket

Incidentally, "Diary" and "Dairy" mean very different things.

sneakyimp

rashid, the ampersand is used to separate values in a URL. I'm not sure how you are creating your URL from the string "Dairy & Eggs" but you might want to look at [man]urlencode[/man]. E.g., this might help:

$mainCatName = isset($_REQUEST['mainCatName']) ? urlencode($_REQUEST['mainCatName']) : "";

I'm not sure how $mainCatName is used in your code so it might not be advantageous to urlencode its contents. It all depends on what you use this var for.

rashid100

sneakyimp;11017217 wrote:
rashid, the ampersand is used to separate values in a URL. I'm not sure how you are creating your URL from the string "Dairy & Eggs" but you might want to look at [man]urlencode[/man]. E.g., this might help:
$mainCatName = isset($_REQUEST['mainCatName']) ? urlencode($_REQUEST['mainCatName']) : "";
I'm not sure how $mainCatName is used in your code so it might not be advantageous to urlencode its contents. It all depends on what you use this var for.

Thank you very much for your help I have fix it with the urlencode. Thanks once again and also thanks for all who tried to help me.