add %20 to my url string

[ballhogjoni]

I am pulling these variables from my mysql db and posting them into this url string. Some vaiables have spaces like the address, how do I automatically encode the url to put a %20 in the place of the space? [code]https://www.XXXXXX.com/auto/api.php?partner_login=$username&partner_password=$password&test=TRUE&command=$command&user_id=$user_id&service=\"code=DS,frequency=M,action=add,renewal_billed_to=U,trial=14\"&output=php&phone=$phone&first_name=$first&last_name=$last&bill_address1=123 address&bill_address2=&bill_city=$city&bill_state=$state&bill_postal=$zipcode&bill_country=US&username=foousername&password=foopassword&cc_num=$ccnumber&cc_exp=$expyear-$expmonth&email=$email";[/code]

this is my code i am trying to make this work for:
[code]mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");

$result = mysql_query("SELECT first, last, email, address, city, state, zipcode, phone FROM articlecash ORDER BY id DESC");

$result2 = mysql_query("SELECT ccnumber, expyear, expmonth FROM articlecashccinfo ORDER BY id DESC");

$result1 = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$result3 = mysql_fetch_array($result2);

mysql_close();

$phone = $result1['phone'];
$first = $result1['first'];
$last = $result1['last'];
$email = $result1['email'];
$address = $result1['address'];
$city = $result1['city'];
$state = $result1['state'];
$zipcode = $result1['zipcode'];
$ccnumber = $result3['ccnumber'];
$expyear = $result3['expyear'];
$expmonth = $result3['expmonth'];
$username = 'XXXXX';
$password = 'XXXXX';
$command = "user.configure";
$user_id = "NEW";
$url = "https://www.XXXX.com/auto/api.php?partner_login=$username&partner_password=$password&test=TRUE&command=$command&user_id=$user_id&service=\"code=DS,frequency=M,action=add,renewal_billed_to=U,trial=14\"&output=php&phone=$phone&first_name=$first&last_name=$last&bill_address1=$address&bill_address2=&bill_city=$city&bill_state=$state&bill_postal=$zipcode&bill_country=US&username=foousername&password=foopassword&cc_num=$ccnumber&cc_exp=$expyear-$expmonth&email=$email";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch , CURLOPT_URL , $url); //the url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);// allow redirects 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // return into a variable 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3); // times out after 4s 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // set POST method
$ret = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $ret;

?>[/code]

[emehrkay]

http://www.phpfreaks.com/phpmanual/page/function.urlencode.html

[ballhogjoni]

I have tried that. I must not know where to put it though.

[bqallover]

Instead of...

[code]
$url = "https://www.XXXX... ";
[/code]

use

[code]
$url = rawurlencode( "http://....  " );
[/code]

That should give you %20 for spaces, unline urlencode() which will give you +.

[ballhogjoni]

I hate to be a pain, but that dint work either. I am having the hardest time iwth this api stuff.

[bqallover]

Have you checked the value of $url after it has been encoded?  Stick a...

[code]
die( $url );
[/code]

after the

[code]
$url = rawurlencode( ... );
[/code]

and see if it's value is as expected.  If it is, then maybe the problem lies with the destination script or the use of curl.  Not a curl expert... :)

[bqallover]

Are you sure the api.php script accepts GET variables?  I notice you've got CURLOPT_POST set, but no postdata sent.

Maybe working from an example like [url=http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/49/2.php]http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/49/2.php[/url] would help.

[ballhogjoni]

I am pretty sure it accepts GET variables because I can place the url into a browser and it works perfectly, all I need to do is manually type the values of the variables in place of the variables.

[ballhogjoni]

I just echoed my $url, and it comes up like this:

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.somedomain.com%2Fauto%2Fapi.php%3Fpartner_login%3Dmyusername%26partner_password%3Dmypassword%26test%3DFALSE%26command%3Duser.configure%26user_id%3DNEW%26service%3D%22code%3DDS%2Cfrequency%3DM%2Caction%3Dadd%2Crenewal_billed_to%3DU%2Ctrial%3D14%22%26output%3Dphp%26phone%3D801-472-6981%26first_name%3DChris%26last_name%3DGunnels%26bill_address1%3D225+Timber+Wolf+Trail%26bill_address2%3D%26bill_city%3DGriffin%26bill_state%3DGA%26bill_postal%3D30224%26bill_country%3DUS%26username%3Dfoousername%26password%3Dfoopassword%26cc_num%3D41111111111111111%26cc_exp%3D2007-01%26email%3Dsomeemail%40yahoo.com

can someone show me how to just add %20 in the spaces. right now it is adding all kinds of stuff. i am using urlencode(); The url is supposed to look like this:

http://www.someurl.com/auto/api.php?partner_login=myusername&partner_password=mypassword&test=FALSE&command=user.configure&user_id=NEW&service="code=DS,frequency=M,action=add,renewal_billed_to=U,trial=14"&output=php&phone=801-472-6981&first_name=Chris&last_name=Gunnels&bill_address1=225[color=red]%20[/color]Timber[color=red]%20[/color]Wolf[color=red]%20[/color]Trail&bill_address2=&bill_city=Griffin&bill_state=GA&bill_postal=30224&bill_country=US&username=foousername&password=foopassword&cc_num=41111111111111111&cc_exp=2007-01&email=someemail@yahoo.com

[ballhogjoni]

any responses

[Hypnos]

You're using urlencode. You want rawurlencode.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.rawurlencode.php

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

urlencode - Converts ' ' to '+'.
rawurlencode - Converts ' ' to '%20'.

[ballhogjoni]

When I use rawurlencode(); I get:

https%3A%2F%2Fwww.someurl.com%2Fauto%2Fapi.php%3Fpartner_login%3Dmyusername%26partner_password%3Dmypass%26test%3DFALSE%26command%3Duser.configure%26user_id%3DNEW%26service%3D%22code%3DDS%2Cfrequency%3DM%2Caction%3Dadd%2Crenewal_billed_to%3DU%2Ctrial%3D14%22%26output%3Dphp%26phone%3D801-472-7895%26first_name%3DChris%26last_name%3DGunnels%26bill_address1%3D225%20Timber%20Wolf%20Trail%26bill_address2%3D%26bill_city%3DGriffin%26bill_state%3DGA%26bill_postal%3D30224%26bill_country%3DUS%26username%3Dfoousername%26password%3Dfoopassword%26cc_num%3D41111111111111111%26cc_exp%3D2007-01%26email%3Dsomeemail%40yahoo.com

[Hypnos]

Don't use it on the entire url. Use it on the vars.


$first = rawurlencode($result1['first']);
$last = rawurlencode($result1['last']);

[ballhogjoni]

Thx Hypnos,

that worked perfectly!