url variable

[bsv77]

I have a re-write rule that takes the URL such as:

/products/?bookname=late-rain

and displays it like:

/products/late-rain

 

and the my script uses the bookname value to search the database. I am running into an issue in that if the value is say "Late Rain" with spaces or "Late-Rain" with dashes, the script will not use that as it should.

 

What is the best way to query something like WHERE bookname = "late-rain"?

 

It may instead be the rewrite as it adds a trailing / when it does not work. If there are no spaces or anything, it works just fine.

 

Thanks for the advise in advance.

[AbraCadaver]

You need to do a echo $_GET['bookname']; and see what is there.

[bsv77]

Yes, I know how to see the variable, the issue is that it does not work when there is a dash in the url like "book name"

[voip03]

In my knowledge you cannot use dash for variables.

Please check with ' php rules'

 

[skwap]

You are not provided your code.

 

Use this example -

 

<?php
$book_name = trim(strtolower($_GET['bookname']));
$book_name = str_replace(" ","-",$book_name);
?>