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I have a snippet that displays a list of hyperlinks that contain php queries.
http://mysite.com/mypage?name="smith,john h"&account="abc;123"
When clicked the query received by the page is:
name="smithjohn h"&account="abc123"
Can someone please tell me why the special characters are getting stripped out.
Thanks
Not my strong suit, but I have some thoughts.
I don't see any actual PHP here, so I think we are talking about HTTP query strings. In a link like this, the browser will make a GET request for a page with the parameters in the query string. I think you have 2 things to consider as options.
1. Make it a form rather than a list of links and use a POST action instead. Query strings are encoded automatically in a POST request.
2. Build the links in your Snippet or wherever using PHP's urlencode function (see: http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php )
I will try to figure out PHP's urlencode function. To reproduce what I am currently doing:
Create a Chunk:
Name: $n"; echo "
Acct: $a"; ?>
Call that chunk in a template and then assign template to a page:
Browse to the page:
http://mysite/test?name=%22smith%20john%20n%22&acct=%22abc%3B123%22 http://mysite/test?name="smith,john n"&acct="abc;123"
Results are:
Name: smith john n Acct: abc123
I tried with urlencode and got basically the same result:
Name: $n"; echo "
Acct: $a"; ?>
Results:
Name: smithjohn+n Acct: abc123
Looks like the REQUEST method will work.
Name: $n"; echo "
Acct: $a"; ?>
Results:
Name: "smith,john n" Acct: "abc;123"
