Spaces in PHP include

[howard-moore]

I have a PHP page where I call a Perl script with the name of a particular field (Committees) being the search delimiter. The issue I have is where the Committee has spaces in its name:

 

<?php include ("$domain/php-bin/councillors.pl?order_by=Surname&order=abc&template=2&method=all&Committees=$Committees"); ?>

 

Therefore, if the end of the include is

[b]...&Committees=Example One"); ?>[/b]

it will fail to show up. I believe that it is caused by the fact that I cannot use spaces when including a PHP file, but I have also tried with replacing the spaces with %20, and this also does not work.

 

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks,

Neil

[trq]

url_encode.

[howard-moore]

I have tried replacing it with:

 

<?php

include ("$domain/php-bin/councillors.pl?order_by=Surname&order=abc&template=2&method=all&Committees=', urlencode($Committees), '");

?>

 

and still getting no results. Any idea what I may be doing wrong?

[trq]

Any idea what I may be doing wrong?

 

Using spaces in a url. There not valid, and neither is that last snippet of code you posted.

 

Do you have access to change the perl script?

[cags]

urlencode is a function and as such it shouldn't be kept inside a string which is what your doing, just look at the highlighting...

<?php
include("$domain/php-bin/councillors.pl?order_by=Surname&order=abc&template=2&method=all&Committees=',urlencode($Committees), '");
?>

 

..it should be..

 

include("$domain/php-bin/councillors.pl?order_by=Surname&order=abc&template=2&method=all&Committees=".urlencode($Committees));

[howard-moore]

Cags and Thorpe - thanks very much indeed - working perfectly, and I have today learnt something very helpful indeed!

[trq]

Hehe, I hinted at your syntax issue but assumed it was just a typo in your post. Glad its working now though.