URL encoding when submitting a form?

[darkminos]

Sooo... every time I try to submit a form, the url is being encoded

 

.php?res_per_page=25&sort_by=Relevance&search_items%3Dsomething%26search_dropdown%3DAll=

 

echo   	 "<form method=get";
echo   	 "?";
echo 		 ">";
echo   	 "Display items";
echo    	 "<select name=res_per_page>";
...
echo		"</select>";
echo		"Sort by";
echo		"<select name=sort_by>";
...		
echo		"		</select>";
echo		"		<input type=hidden name=$replaced>";
echo		"		<input type=submit value=GO class=searchbutton>";
echo		"		</form>";

 

Even when trying to decode it before submitting with the following code...

 

    $entities = array('%21', '%2A', '%27', '%28', '%29', '%3B',
     '%3A', '%40', '%26', '%3D', '%2B', '%24', '%2C', '%2F', '%3F', '%25', '%23', '%5B', '%5D');
    $replacements = array('!', '*', "'", "(", ")", ";", ":", "@",
     "&", "=", "+", "$", ",", "/", "?", "%", "#", "[", "]");
    $replaced = str_replace($entities, $replacements, $temp);

[Barand]

Thank you for your comment.

[PaulRyan]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php

[darkminos]

Rather then decoding the url I am looking to stop encoding it in the first place

 

[darkminos]

I mean, is there a way for the browser to show = rather than %3D?? there is too much happening within the script for me to change all of the variables to urlencode()

[xyph]

I mean, is there a way for the browser to show = rather than %3D?? there is too much happening within the script for me to change all of the variables to urlencode()

 

There's a reason it's encoded... you don't want to change this behaviour.

[DavidAM]

Certain characters have special meaning in the URL, so the browser must encode them before sending them. PHP realizes this, and will (should) decode them before you see them in $_GET.

 

Are you seeing a problem processing this data in your PHP script? If so, describe the problem you are having and we can probably help.

 

Are you just looking for a way to make the url look "pretty"? If so, you need to look into the (Apache) mod_rewrite module.

 

 

[darkminos]

Right, sorry I should have explained better. Looks have nothing to do with my problem. the last time I done php is 10 years ago and see some differences, like the variable carried over in the URL is not always accessible by just calling it $some_variable, now I have to $_GET['some_variable']... not always however. Now, when I have some_variable=something in the URL I can get it no problem with $some_variable, however when I have some_variable%3Dsomething I can't get it. I hope this makes sense.

 

[xyph]

I've never had PHP automatically urlencode() values for me. I'm not sure how/why that %3D is being generated.

 

You'd have to show us the code that generates your anchor tags.

[Barand]

I suggest you read up on register_globals and why it was deprecated 10 years ago as a security hole.

[Barand]

I've never had PHP automatically urlencode() values for me.

 

You have whenever you submitted a form with method = GET, but not when you build a querystring yourself

[xyph]

I've never had PHP automatically urlencode() values for me.

 

You have whenever you submitted a form with method = GET, but not when you build a querystring yourself

 

I'm not sure what you mean? Isn't submitting a form a client-side action? GET/POST is decided and implemented client-side?

[darkminos]

Ok... I can't believe how simple the solution was...

 

echo  "<input type=hidden name=search value=".$_GET['search'].">";

 

I was trying to send the actual variable in the name field...

 

It was good to be educated on some of the changes done since PHP3

 

Thank you for the help!

[Barand]

@xyph

 

<?php
echo <<< html
    <form method='get'>
        <input type='text' name='text1' value='a b c' />
        <br /><br />
        <input type='submit' value='Submit' name='btnSub' />       
    </form>
html;
?>

 

What I meant was this.

 

When the above form  is submitted, the query string will be

?text1=a+b+c&btnSub=Submit

 

ie the text field value is automatically urlencoded.

[xyph]

@xyph

 

<?php
echo <<< html
    <form method='get'>
        <input type='text' name='text1' value='a b c' />
        <br /><br />
        <input type='submit' value='Submit' name='btnSub' />       
    </form>
html;
?>

 

What I meant was this.

 

When the above form  is submitted, the query string will be

?text1=a+b+c&btnSub=Submit

 

ie the text field value is automatically urlencoded.

 

The encoding is done client-side though, right?

 

I still have no idea what the OP is really trying to accomplish, so maybe that's why I'm confused.

[Barand]

I still have no idea what the OP is really trying to accomplish, so maybe that's why I'm confused.

 

you and me.