RE: [PHP] plus sign has changed to space after POST

I have tried this but the problem is it change the other special character as well. For example, $ to %24, etc. If people pass a string like "abc+def$ghi", I want to save the exact string to the database rather than "abc+def%24ghi". I can't do a translation of %24 to $ before saving the string to the database because user might input a string like "abc+%3423324hello%23ddd" "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> 11/19/2002 03:52 PM Please respond to holmes072000 To: <bhkwan@ThoughtWorks.com>, <php-general@lists.php.net> cc: Subject: RE: [PHP] plus sign has changed to space after POST > -----Original Message----- > From: bhkwan@ThoughtWorks.com [mailto:bhkwan@ThoughtWorks.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 6:43 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] plus sign has changed to space after POST > > After upgrade to 4.2.3, plus "+" sign has changed to space after POST. I > have checked the mailing list but can't find any help to turn this off > forever! is this a bug in PHP? > > thanks Spaces are encoded as plus signed or %20 in the URL, depending on the method you use. PHP will automatically urldecode() the values passed in the URL apparently. If you are trying to pass an actual + sign, you need to encode it with urlencode() or rawurlencode(). ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php