[FX.php List] character encoding issue?

Bob Patin bob at patin.com
Thu Feb 16 16:58:31 MST 2006


On Feb 13, 2006, at 12:41 PM, kevin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to search a Filemaker table of email addresses via  
> FX.php and I'm running into some strange behavior that may be an  
> encoding issue.
>
> Basically, it seems like the '@' in the address isn't matching  
> because of how it's encoded, although I think the encoding of '%40'  
> is correct.
>
> http://myserver.edu/fmi/xml/FMPXMLRESULT.xml?-db=logins.fp7
> &-lay=master&-max=all&master+names::email=myaddress%40mydomain.edu&- 
> find
>
> When I omit the '@' and use a wild card instead, I get a match from  
> the same table
>
> http://myserver.edu/fmi/xml/FMPXMLRESULT.xml?-db=logins.fp7
> &-lay=master&-max=all&master+names::email=myaddress*&-find
>
> What am I missing here?

In CDML I get around this with double equal signs, like this:

> ...&master+names::email==myaddress at domain.edu&-find

It works great in CDML; does that not work with XML as well?


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