Special Characters In Search String

[sintax63]

I found the issue:

$letters = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9 ]", "", $searched);

Thanks everyone.

[mac_gyver]

where and how is the search term $q being input?

 

have you echoed your $query to make sure it contains what you expect?

[sintax63]

Well the issue I'm having now is with the # symbol itself. It is getting tossed up into the address bar, but my code seems to be ignoring it when I echo it out on the page.

[QuickOldCar]

wrong post I did somehow

[QuickOldCar]

Hash marks and fragments get ignored through the address bar.

 

Run this example on what you can do or not to see the fragment.

 

<?php
$url = filter_var("http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
if (!empty($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"])) {
    $query_string = filter_var($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
    $url .= "?" . $query_string;
}

echo "<h4>what your script sees from address bar</h4>";
echo $url . "<br />";
//as can see here, nothing through $_server shows the fragment
print_r($_SERVER);
echo "<h4>client side using javascript</h4>";
echo "<script language='javascript'>
document.write(window.location.hash);
</script>";
echo "<h4>directly from server or in code</h4>";
$url = "http://site.com/page#fragment";
//example 1
echo parse_url($url, PHP_URL_FRAGMENT) . "<br />";
//example 2
echo end(explode("#", $url)) . "<br />";
//example 3
$arr = parse_url($url);
//print_r($arr);
echo $arr['fragment'];
?>