RE: [PHP-DB] Passing string variable to HTML TITLE tag fails within Netscape but works well within IE.
| From: | Howard Picken | Date: | Wed, 16 Oct 2002 06:51:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] Passing string variable to HTML TITLE tag fails within Netscape but works well within IE. | ||
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Hi Darrian
Have had similar problems. I got around it by
wrapping all posted variables with rawurlencode().
This replace any spaces or special characters with an nasi equiv
ie space with %20. IE will ignore it.
GL
Howard
-----Original Message-----
From: Darrian Walker [mailto:dwalker@healthyproductsplus.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 1:10 PM
To: php-db@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP-DB] Passing string variable to HTML TITLE tag fails within
Netscape but works well within IE.
Passing string variable to HTML TITLE tag fails within Netscape but work
well within IE.
I have a single page consisting of inventory items to be sold. When an
item
is selected, it passes the product name to a DETAIL page as part of the
TITLE tag for the DETAIL page. My problem is: Netscape does not like the
SPACES between the text and refuses to display the DETAIL page.
Initially, I thought there might be some way to parse the string and add
the
ascii code for SPACE, but I wasn't sure if I was on the right track. Does
anyone have a proven solution to this problem?
I thought the pseudo code might look something like this:
<?php
function
parse_and_change(&grab_string){
$string_holder=$grab_string;
while stepping through the characters in this $string_holder
{ if character = " " (or some other representation)
replace it with something that doesn't
scare netscape or title tag
}
return $string_holder;
}
?>
<?php
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS["itemname"])) {
$title = (parse_and_change($HTTP_GET_VARS["itemname"] ));
}else{
$title="Generic Product Title";
}
?>
<html>
<title><?php echo $title ?> </title>
</html>