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

[Bob Patin]

Well... I finally got it by replacing spaces with a pipe and then replacing them BACK when the user uses the link...

Not sure why it didn't work before but it's working now... :)

If you go to tirms.longtermsolutions.com, then click on SEARCH, and then select a company with a 2-word name, you'll see the results and then a link that you can copy. I wish there were a way that I could let users save a bookmark from this link--is there any way to do that in PHP? I'm thinking not...

Thanks,

Bob

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> On Jul 14, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Chris Hansen <chris at iViking.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>> 
>>> Bob Patin
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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
>>>> Longterm Solutions
>>>> bob at longtermsolutions.com <mailto:bob at longtermsolutions.com>
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