mod_rewrite question

Anon

Hey, I was wondering if anyone could help me. What I need to be able to do is replace a " " with a "" using Apache's mod_rewrite. I don't know how to use regular expressions and it's really hard to learn.

So for example, I want:

http://localhost/index.php?id=Space Space

to become:

http://localhost/index.php?id=SpaceSpace

Any ideas? Thanks in advance 🙂

Anon

Use str_replace instead

$text = str_replace(" ","",$text);

Anon

no, not with php. With Apache's Mod_Rewrite engine. It's very useful for redirecting. I'm not sure about this one, but I would like to know too.

Anon

That's the problem, I have to do this replacement BEFORE it hits the php script. :/

brandonschnell

haven't tried it, but can you try something like:

RewriteRule (^ ) $1

but does the webserver actually see the spaces or the urlencoded result? you might have to do a regex on "%20" to remove the space.

Anon

Unfortunately, there isn't even a %20 to replace.

The PHP script is being linked and viewed from within the AOL Instant Messenger profile window, which is a minibrowser in and of itself. The actual link looks like this:

http://localhost/view.php?p=profile&id=%n

Within the AIM profile window, %n is automatically replaced with the current screenname viewing the profile. So if your screen name was "Screen Name", you would see the link as:

http://localhost/view.php?p=profile&id=Screen Name

Now, if you were to copy and paste that into a normal browser window, you would get:

http://localhost/view.php?p=profile&id=Screen%20Name

Which is just fine and dandy with me and PHP. However, if I echo $QUERY_STRING within the AIM profile window, I simply get:

http://localhost/view.php?p=profile&id=Screen

Anything after the space seems to be invisible to my script. What bothers me is that I KNOW it's possible to get around this problem. This same service (having a dynamic profile within your AIM profile) is provided by http://www.subprofile.com and they can handle the spaces. I realize that this seems like a silly use for PHP, but I just needed a little project to get me started. Little did I know I'd run into problems due to the shortcomings of AIM.

Any ideas?