Re: URLencode issues - halp! - code included

Take the $name = urldecode($name); bit out. The decoding is all handled by PHP before your script runs. Also, you should look into using $_GET['name'] instead of $name. SpyProductions Support Team wrote:

Here is some code:

From a form, I get username as $name and it goes to the processing file for

the form, where a sale happens and it sends the code to a different server like this: $data = urlencode($name); print "<META HTTP-EQUIV='refresh' CONTENT='0;URL=http://somedestination.php?name=$data'>"; That server then processes the person and puts them into the MySQL - but if the name is bad, it errors out and stops the script: $name = urldecode($name); if(!$name) { print "You entered an invalid name. Please stop and call us at...."; } else { Inserts record into database. } That's it. It doesn't seem to matter what the name entered is; there is no rhyme or reason (seemingly) to the names it fails on (as per my previous post). urlencode may just be a flaky thing to use? Perhaps depending on the browser? Thanks, -Mike

-----Original Message----- From: David T-G [mailto:davidtg-php@justpickone.org] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:31 PM To: PHP General list Cc: SpyProductions Support Team Subject: Re: [PHP] URLencode issues - halp! Mike -- ...and then SpyProductions Support Team said... % % I am having some issues, apparently, with URL encode. ... % % I decided to use this because people are allowed to use *any* key as part of % their name, so a name like "rt'$%^*&'rt" is perfectly allowable. Makes sense, but I'd use base64_encode (with base64_decode, of course) rather than urlencode; it will properly shield everything. No, I don't know why 'normal' names fail and goofy ones don't; without some code and some specific examples we can't really tell too well :-) HTH & HAND :-D --

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