Re: Plus sign changing to space in html form

This is true, but the + itself should also be encoded. I did a quick test, and when I post a form variable called test with a value of 1+1=2, the HTTP request looks like this: POST /test.php HTTP/1.1 Host: 127.0.0.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020916 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1 Accept-Language: en Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 14 test=1%2B1%3D2 So, that %2B would have to get decoded twice to result in a space. Stan, do you have a way to see what the HTTP request is? You mention being on a BSD box, so I assume you have tcpdump? Also, is this behavior consistent with different browsers? Chris John W. Holmes wrote:

The plus sign is used to signify a space in some URL encoding. PHP is probably thinking the text is encoded and it's removing the plus sign. Not sure on a solution. ---John Holmes...

-----Original Message----- From: Stan [mailto:stann@pobox.sk] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 6:27 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Plus sign changing to space in html form When i post a string containing plus sign with htmp form to a php scritp, the '+' is changed to space. e.g: i enter 'as+df' to a text input but $_POST[] returns 'as df' instead. It must be in php or apache configuration bcause i have this problem only on sytem with FreeBSD. On windows it works as expected. Know someone how could i make the '+' left intact? Please help. <? echo $_POST['test']; ?> <form actiom='test.php' method=POST> <input type=text value='' name=test> <input type=submit value='submit'> </form>