#19569 [Com]: urlencode() problem encoding strings containing single quotes

ID: 19569 Comment by: dbarndt@ntlpromos.com Reported By: dbarndt@ntlpromos.com Status: Bogus Bug Type: *URL Functions Operating System: Windows NT 4.0 SP6 PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: Thanks for the reply. As a C/C++ developer for 13 years, but having only recently been introduced to PHP, I am painfully well aware of the joys and pitfalls of printf() functionality, and will look into print() as you suggested. Probably because of the late hour, I neglected to check the log or support site. So much for my first PHP bug submission. I thought it was probably something stupid. My apologies for wasting your valuable time. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-24 03:02:51] hholzgra@php.net Sorry, but the bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php Thank you for your interest in PHP. do not use printf unless you know what you are doing, use plain print or echo instead *and* please have a look at your error log first before reporting problems you would have seen a message like Warning: printf(): too few arguments in ... on line 9 due to the fact that urlencode() converts your string to "Mickey%27s+Fun+House", so requesting to output the 2nd parameter (not given here) as a 27 character wide string see http://php.net/print and http://php.net/print for the different semantics of print() and printf() ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-24 02:03:33] dbarndt@ntlpromos.com fixed typo in title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-24 02:01:29] dbarndt@ntlpromos.com I really hesitated putting this in as a bug, because it seems so simple. The urlencode() documentation seems to imply that the following script should work fine, however it fails to output the second printf() on my system. I am running with the php.ini-recommended INI file on Windows NT 4.0 SP6. (I've tried various combinations of htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() with the urlencode() as well, but so far without success.) Here's the script: <html> <head> </head> <body> <?php $test_str = "Mickey's Fun House"; printf ($test_str); $encoded_str = urlencode ($test_str); printf ($encoded_str); ?> </body> </html> If this is something stupid on my end, I apologize for the bother. Thanks, Dave Barndt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19569&edit=1