[RESOLVED] Variables that don't post in their entirely...

tedteeter

Greetings, July 9th 2013

I have furnished a couple of code examples below that as I attempt to build a link for email insertion allow for the passed variable to be broken. While I know that 'urlencode' is acknowledged to help in this situation I was hoping that there was an easier way to preserve the entire business name that has spaces and half the name is lost in the link and half the name is passed to the site?

$urladd="http://www.xxxxxx.x10.mx/associate.php?businessname=".$_REQUEST['thename'];

is then placed into
long variable string, truncated==> "Login Area"."\n"."\n".$urladd."\n"."\n"."Staff";

Appreciatively,
Ted

bradgrafelman

What does the resulting HTML look like? (After all, that's what really matters - the PHP code used to produce it is irrelevant.)

In regards to [man]urlencode/man... how much easier does it get than a single function call?

tedteeter

bradgrafelman,

The resulting html is while that the link appears only a part of it is part of the link, underlined in blue, and upon clicking only part of the name variable is passed to the page. I utilize a lot of generated html, pages and the urlencode may be the only way to go. I was just hoping that there was another way to initially pass the variable rather than decode in numerous places.

bradgrafelman

tedteeter;11031011 wrote:
The resulting html is while that the link appears only a part of it is part of the link, underlined in blue, and upon clicking only part of the name variable is passed to the page.

HTML is just plain text; unless you're talking about some HTML editor you're using, it can't have text "underlined in blue." I was asking for you to provide us with the raw HTML markup that comprises the "link" - a term I presume refers to an HTML hyperlink.

tedteeter;11031011 wrote:
I utilize a lot of generated html, pages and the urlencode may be the only way to go. I was just hoping that there was another way to initially pass the variable rather than decode in numerous places.

For one, no "decoding" should be necessary. You simply need to encode the URL properly so that the webserver will properly and automatically decode it for you.

For example, URLs can not contain spaces. Thus, spaces must be encoded either as '%20' or '+' (depending upon which method of encoding is being used). However, by the time this request is passed along to PHP, the webserver will already have replaced '%20' (or '+') with a space.

tedteeter

bradgrafelman,

Well you are right on top it all :-).....the urlencode worked great while impressively. You sold me on the statement when you allowed that the "Decoding" was done automatically by the browser. I am extremely appreciative of all your assistance as usual :-)
Ted