Using _Get to pass ' and & through URL

Paulio · July 4, 2010

Hey, i have a PHP script on my ReadyNas Duo that basically displays a list of movie data sorted on the unit, then if a movie folder is provided in the url it displays the details for that movie.

The code for the main script file is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<?
$Mov = stripslashes($_GET['mov']);  // Get string from mov variable (if any)

if ($Mov != "") {  // If string provided in url set page title as movie title and set directory
$title = str_replace(".", " ", $Mov);
$MovieDir = "/c/Movies/" . $Mov . "/";
}
else {  // If no string provided then set title for all Movie Listing
$title = "Movie List"; 
}
?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title><? echo $title; ?></title>
<link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="favicon.ico"> 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.ae.image.resize.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.smart.columns.js"></script>
<script>
$(function() {
$(".resizeDetails").aeImageResize({height: 550, width: 550});
});
</script>
</head>

<?
/*
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   |	Movie Details Page ( For Specific Movie   )                                                    |
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
if ($Mov != "") {
$DetailsFile = $MovieDir . "Details.txt";  // Sets Location for details.txt for particular movie
$CoverFile = "image.php?mov=" . str_replace("/c/Movies/", "",$MovieDir);  // Sets Location for cover for particular movie
$CoverFile = $CoverFile . "&type=cover"; // Specifies that the image to be displayed is a cover (full sized movie poster) other option is thumb(nail)

$fh = fopen($DetailsFile, 'r');  // Open details file and explose into variables
$theData = fread($fh, filesize($DetailsFile));
fclose($fh);
$delimiter ="@";
list($title, $year, $genre, $plot, $tag, $imdb, $created) = explode($delimiter, $theData);

// Display details and cover in table
echo "<table class = \"MovieDetails\" width=\"98%\" height=\"98%\" align=\"center\"><tr><td>";
echo "<b>Title:- </b>$title<br>";
echo "<b>Year:- </b>$year<br>";
echo "<b>Genre:- </b>$genre<br>";
echo "<b>Plot:- </b>$plot<br>";
echo "<b>Tagline:- </b>$tag<br>";
echo "<b>IMDb:- </b><a href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt" . $imdb . "'>" . $imdb . "</a><br>";
echo "<b>Created:- </b>$created<br>";
echo "</td><td>";
echo "<img src=\"" . $CoverFile . "\" class=\"resizeDetails\" align=\"right\"></tr></td></table>";
}
/*
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   |	Directory Listing                                                                              |
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
else {
$folders = array();
if ($handle = opendir('/c/Movies')) {  // Location of Movies root folder
	while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
		if ($file != "." && $file != ".." & $file != "__New" & $file != "cover.jpg") {
			$folders[] = $file;
		}
	}
	closedir($handle);
}
asort($folders);
$total = sizeof($folders);
echo "Listing of Movies<br>\n<b>$total</b> movies in folder.<br><br>\n";
echo "<ul class=\"column\">\n";
foreach($folders as $i) {
	if($i != "." && $i != "..") {
		/*
		Movies are in folders in the format of "Name.Of.Movie[Year]" such as
		"/c/Movies/Law.Abiding.Citizen[2009]" the next few lines seperate title from year.
		*/
		$title =  str_replace(".", " ", $i);  
		$title = substr($title,0, strlen($title) -6);
		$year = substr($i, -6);
		$year = substr($year,1,-1);
		$ThumbFile = "image.php?mov=" . str_replace("/c/Movies/", "",$i);
		$ThumbFile = $ThumbFile . "&type=thumb";

		// Generates code used for Smart Columns jQuery Plugin
		echo "\t<!--List Item For $i-->\n";
		echo "\t<li>\n";
		echo "\t\t<div class=\"block\">\n";
		echo "\t\t\t<a href=\"?mov=" . $i . "\"><img src=\"" . $ThumbFile . "\"><br>" . $title . "<br>" . $year . "</a>\n";
		echo "\t\t</div>\n";
		echo "\t</li>\n";
		echo "\t<!--End List Item For $i-->\n\n";
	}
}
echo "</ul>"; 
}
?>

<body>
</body>
</html>

if you look at the screen shots you can see that the hyper links are displayed correctly but the script cannot send "&" signs through the URL for obvious syntax reasons, but for movies like Angels & Demons this is necessary.

Also just be clarify for a movie like "Angels.&.Demons[2009]" this is the folder name within the "/c/Movies/" directory so the name doesnt need to manipulated in that respect.

Any help with this would be great, Thanks,

Paul.

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Cagecrawler · July 4, 2010

Use urlencode when adding the movie name to the url.

Paulio · July 4, 2010

Got it cheers mate so simple!

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