Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 03/29/05 17:10

Aaron Todd wrote:
> All I am doing is adding a file name as a variable in the
> URL.....http://www.mysite.com/mypage.php?variable=this is my image.jpg

You should write:

echo '<a href="http://www.mysite.com/mypage.php?variable=' .
rawurlencode('this is my image.jpg') . '">here</a>';

Then $_GET['variable'] will be equal to 'this is my image.jpg'.

>
> When I do a echo $_GET['variable']; it only writes the first word. Is
> there some setting that might be turned off in the php.ini file that would
> disable this functionality?
>
> Thanks
>
> "Marek Kilimajer" <lists@kilimajer.net> wrote in message
> news:42487D36.2030802@kilimajer.net...
>
>>Aaron Todd wrote:
>>
>>>I am trying to use the rawurldecode() function to decode a variable that
>>>is begin passed from a different page through the url. The PHP manual
>>>doesnt say much for this function, but it does have quite a bit on the
>>>urldecode() function which says using urldecode on a $_GET variable wont
>>>produce the desired results. Is there another way to decode a url
>>>variable? Or maybe a better way to get a variable from one page to
>>>another so I can use it. The variable may contain all types of
>>>characters, but mainly a space(%20) is the biggest problem.
>>>
>>>If anyone has some kind of workaround for this please let me know.
>>
>>You should not need it, %20 is decoded to space and as such is already in
>>$_GET variable. If it's still encoded then you encoded it where it was not
>>necessary.
>
>

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