Putting " and > inside a link.

[the_oliver]

Hello.

 

I have a files which could be something like:

 

gunk>stuff"yes.htm

 

But when i link to them this causes havouc with the HTML!  I tried relpacing them with \> and \"  but that didn't make any diffrence.  Whats the way round this?

 

Thanks.

[effigy]

url_encode.

[the_oliver]

Hello,

 

I tried all the options on that page and always got something like:

e011_Again_It's_!_$_&_'_(_)_|_/%22_;_:_/_._%3C_%3E_`.htm in the link rather then the

e011_Again_It's_!_$_&_'_(_)_|_\"_;_:_\_._<_>_`.htm  i was expecting.

 

(sory its so long!  Just checking to see what causes problems!)

 

They all replacesd the symbols with something else, rater then just telling it to do something like skip over them.

 

Thanks.

[effigy]

That's the point of urlencode. It turns any invalid characters (according to the specification) into hex values prefixed by a percent sign.

[the_oliver]

Ok, but is there a way of doing the with out changing the charictors, as the file is named using the < > and " charictors not %3C etc.  If i use %3C in the link, it tells me the page cannot be found!

 

Thanks

[effigy]

What does the code and source look like, and what is the actual file name?

[the_oliver]

Actual file name:

e011_Again_It's_!_$_&_'_(_)_|_\"_;_:_\_._<_>_`.htm

Code:

$htmlurl = "e011_Again_It's_!_$_&_'_(_)_|_\\\"_;_:_\_._<_>_`.htm";
$text .= "<a href=\"".urlencode($htmlurl)."\" target=\"blank\">$htmlurl</a>";

If i do View Source:

<p>Your newsletter has been published as a web page.</p><p>It can be viewed online at: <a href="e011_Again_It%27s_%21_%26_%27_%28_%29_%7C_%22_%3B_%3A_%5C_._%3C_%3E_%60.htm" target="blank">e011_Again_It's_!_&_'_(_)_|_"_;_:_\_._<_>_`.htm</a>

 

[effigy]

If you decode the output URL...

 

<pre>
<?php
echo urldecode('e011_Again_It%27s_%21_%26_%27_%28_%29_%7C_%22_%3B_%3A_%5C_._%3C_%3E_%60.htm');
?>
</pre>

 

...you get...

 

e011_Again_It's_!_&_'_(_)_|_"_;_:_\_._<_>_`.htm

 

...which isn't your file name. You're losing the dollar sign and the backslash before the double quote. Based on this, it looks like $htmlurl goes through some interpolation prior to being decoded. What does echo $htmlurl; show you?

 

 

[the_oliver]

I think that must have been a typo.

 

I ran:

$htmlurl = "e011_Again_It's_!_$_&_'_(_)_|_\\\"_;_:_\_._<_>_`.htm";
$en = urlencode($htmlurl);
echo $en."<br>";        //ENCODED
echo $htmlurl."<br>"; //PLAIN
echo urldecode($htmlurl);

//DECODED

 

And got

e011_Again_It%27s_%21_%26_%27_%28_%29_%7C_%5C%22_%3B_%3A_%5C_._%3C_%3E_%60.htm

e011_Again_It's_!_&_'_(_)_|_\"_;_:_\_._<_>_`.htm

e011_Again_It's_!_&_'_(_)_|_\"_;_:_\_._<_>_`.htm

 

 

 

Thanks for your help so far!

[effigy]

The new encoding should work now...