Posted by Peter on 12/25/06 22:25

Hi,

For years I have used a '#' character in certain strings in an application
but now I find I need to pass those strings to a php script.
#characters seem to cut off strings
e.g. www.url.com/script.php?text=mytext#yourtext
and $text will only contain mytext
#yourtext is gone

I have changed the program and php so that a # characters are replaced by a
dash '-' and I apply the logic on that (so no problem)
but now I also need the ability to manually input the data (POST form) and
of course now the '#' is again used by those that do not know.

Besides onvious warnings in the html, can I fix this in php ?

Can I check for the '#' character ?
In my test I can't seem to do that because the #' and rest of the text are
already gone ?

Your input appreciated

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