"+" sign

[freeloader]

Hi guys,

I'm writing a prog that gives an email through a form to a website. I'm using gmails trick (freeloader+myaddy@gmail.com). I give the program the email value and have it echo it to be sure.

[code]echo "$email\n";[/code]

It displays it correctly.

Then I give it to the website through cURL.

[code]"&password=mypass&email=".$email."&password2=mypass&email2=".$email."[/code]

The postfield goes on but that's the important part.

Now when I check it with echo, I notice he didn't send the + sign to the server. This is what he sends as email address:
freeloader myaddy@gmail.com

Instead of "+" he used a space character. Any way to fix this?

thanks in advance

[marcus]

You can easily use str_replace

[code]
$email = str_replace(" ","+",$email);
[/code]

which will take the space from the variable and replace it with the plus (+) sign

[onlyican]

thats because + is not a valid symbol in URLs or Emails
Till now with gmail anyway

[Barand]

try

"&password=mypass&email=".urlencode($email)."&password2=mypass&email2=".$email."

[kenrbnsn]

A plus sign in a URL is an alternate version of an urlencoded space.

You can solve this by urlencoding the text before you pass it, so the plus sign becomes "%2B" in the URL. When the recieving script get it, this will be translated back to "+".

[code]<?php
"&password=mypass&email=".urlencode($email)."&password2=mypass&email2=".urlencode($email)."
?>[/code]

Ken

[freeloader]

Brilliant :D Thanks for the help guys, the urlencoding did the trick, works like a charm.

Another happy virtual costumer :p

[brendandonhue]

urlencode() changes spaces to plus signs. Use rawurlencode() if you want spaces to become %20.