Posted by deja on 10/13/07 05:31

On Oct 12, 10:02 am, Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
> In our last episode, <1192164404.526476.12...@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
> the lovely and talented d...@icepick.com broadcast on comp.lang.php:
>
> > Jerry,
> > I simplified my webpage to
> ><?php
> > echo $_GET['var1'];
> > echo $_GET['var2'];
> > echo $_GET['var3'];
> > ?>
> > And the url I use now to test is (besides the example part)
> >www.example.com/php/blah.php?var1=test&var2=blahblah&var3=candy
> > When I do this it only returns one variable.
> > There must be something simple I am missing here..
>
> Are you doing this from the command line? If so, you should single quote
> the url because your shell is interpreting the ampersand, not passing it
> through.
>
> so for example in bash or sh:
>
> Fri Oct 12 02:49:34 bash3.2:ttyp0:lars
> debranded~$lynx -dumphttp://localhost/~work/index.php?var1=test&var2=blah\
> blah&var3=candy
> [1] 5661
> [2] 5662
> Fri Oct 12 02:51:12 bash3.2:ttyp0:lars
> debranded~$test
>
> You got test as expected by setting var1, but the shell has done its own
> thing with everything after the first &.
>
> Single quote it and it will pass the whole url through:
>
> Fri Oct 12 02:54:33 bash3.2:ttyp0:lars
> debranded~$lynx -dump 'http://localhost/~work/index?var1=test&var2=blah\
> blah&var3=candy'
> testblahblahcandy
>
> Fri Oct 12 02:56:03 bash3.2:ttyp0:lars
> debranded~$
>
> Which is the right answer.
>
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Thanks everyone.. this turned out to be the problem indeed.. I tested
it with WGET instead of with a regular web browser..
I got it working now.. thanks a lot.

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