Firefox translation of email '@' in Get

[jalea148]

I’m using a Get to pass data to the next page. With Internet Explorer there are no problems. With Firefox, the @ symbol in the email address is translated into %40. This causes a problem in this snippet:

<input type="hidden" name="from" value="<?php echo $_GET['Email']; ?>"

 

[customer@alltel.net comes through as customer%40alltel.net in Firefox]

What fixes are available? Thank you. Jay

[PHP_PhREEEk]

In the <form> tag, use POST instead of GET would be the obvious answer. Other than that, you can use a string function to convert the %40 back to an @ symbol.

 

PhREEEk

[jalea148]

In the <form> tag, use POST instead of GET would be the obvious answer. Other than that, you can use a string function to convert the %40 back to an @ symbol.

 

PhREEEk

 

Something like this?

 

<input type="hidden" name="from" value="<?php echo strtr($_GET['Email'],'%40','@'); ?>"

 

  Jay

[PHP_PhREEEk]

No... you need to convert it AFTER it is received by the processing script, and you need to use str_replace, not strstr...

 

The processing script...

<?php
if ( !empty($_GET['Email']) ) {
    $email = str_replace("%40", "@", $_GET['Email']);
}

 

Testing it...

 

<?php
$_GET['Email'] = 'customer%40alltel.net';
if ( !empty($_GET['Email']) ) {
    $email = str_replace("%40", "@", $_GET['Email']);
}
echo "Email = $email";
?>

 

PhREEEk

[trq]

Best to use urldecode().

 

<?php

if ( !empty($_GET['Email']) ) {
  $email = urldecode($_GET['Email']);
  echo "Email = $email";
}

?>

[jalea148]

Best to use urldecode().

 

<?php

if ( !empty($_GET['Email']) ) {
  $email = urldecode($_GET['Email']);
  echo "Email = $email";
}

?>

 

Works like a charm. Thanx  Jay