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

[Chris Hansen]

Bob,

I think the problem has to be in the way that the page is handling the parameters and doing the query.  How does the code that handles that look?

Best,

--Chris

> On Jul 14, 2016, at 5:49 PM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com <mailto:bob at patin.com>> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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