[FX.php List] Encoding a link so that it'll process...

[Bob Patin]

To explain what I'm trying to do:

My client says that, in the old site,users often grabbed the URL from the address bar, so that they could get back to a search they did.

So, I was trying to generate a link that they can grab, and then pass it into my jQuery site, and duplicate the search results.

So long as the search params are single-words, my link works great, but if I do a SEARCH and select something with 2 words, the link that I'm generating won't work.

I just don't get it... :)

> On Jul 14, 2016, at 6:42 PM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
> 
> I did... 
> 
> Here's a link that works:
> 
> http://tirms.longtermsolutions.com/?ql=true&cc=Acadian <http://tirms.longtermsolutions.com/?ql=true&cc=Acadian>
> 
> but if I add the 2nd word in their name
> 
> http://tirms.longtermsolutions.com/?ql=true&cc=Acadian <http://tirms.longtermsolutions.com/?ql=true&cc=Acadian> AgriTech
> 
> it fails. The funny thing is though, I use jQuery and pass that 2-word name in the original query and it works.
> 
> I also tried
> 
> http://tirms.longtermsolutions.com/?ql=true&cc=Acadian%20AgriTech <http://tirms.longtermsolutions.com/?ql=true&cc=Acadian%20AgriTech>
> 
> but that fails too...
> 
> The question i have is, WHAT can I put between the 2 words that will get passed to my query and work?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Bob
> 
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>> On Jul 14, 2016, at 6:34 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth <tim.webko at gmail.com <mailto:tim.webko at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Have you tried a + instead of %20 ? 
>> 
>> On 15 July 2016 at 09:14, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com <mailto:bob at patin.com>> wrote:
>> I'm generating a link on a PHP page, like this:
>> 
>> http://www.site.com/test.php?cc=two <http://www.site.com/test.php?cc=two> words
>> 
>> The client wants to be able to copy this link for use later, but when we do so, anytime "cc" is 2 or more words the query fails.
>> 
>> I tried encoding the spaces like this
>> 
>> two%20words
>> 
>> but it still didn't work.
>> 
>> Then I tried doing a str_replace to get something like this:
>> 
>> two|words
>> 
>> and then when the user gets to the page, taking the pipe and putting a space back in before the search. That failed too...
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> 
>> Bob Patin
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