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[petroz]

Hi Guys,

 

I am trying to echo the path to a img from a db. When my $thumb var is called it shows up with a valid url. When I compose the img src tag and echo $thumb I am getting a really weird looking url. The url's are showing up like the below;

 

http://mysite.local/wp-content/uploads/%3C/span%3E2009/09/yuriandgrouper.jpg%3Cspan%20style=

 

<img src="<?php echo $thumb;?>" height="50" width="50" border="0"/>

 

any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Fergal Andrews]

What you are seeing is an encoded URL.

 

Use urldecode() to echo the URL in it's human readable form.

 

<?php

$url = 'http://mysite.local/wp-content/uploads/%3C/span%3E2009/09/yuriandgrouper.jpg%3Cspan%20style= ';

echo urldecode($url);

?>

 

 

Will display:

 

http://mysite.local/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/yuriandgrouper.jpg