Re: http_build_query ... argh

Larry Garfield wrote: > On Thursday 09 November 2006 10:22, Jochem Maas wrote: > >> apparently http_build_query() has been 'fixed' so that it now >> urlencodes square brackets (and if you have never used square brackets in >> a url pointing a php script then your obviously new here ;-) >> >> this is fine - apart from the fact that I have a rather complex generic >> thingy that not only uses http_build_query() to build actual URLs but >> also to generate the input names of hidden form fields (sometimes >> one needs/wants to place a stack of request arguments as hidden inputs >> instead of as GET parameters of a URL. > > Er, wouldn't the better solution be to fix http_build_query to not break when > handling fairly typical PHP URLs? http_build_query() was fixed (it's a core function btw) - and the problem is the fact that it now correctly encoded square brackets (as per HTTP specs) , the urlencoding makes using the return value of http_build_query() in the name attribute of a hidden input impossible unless the relevant square brackets are first decoded. >