[SOLVED] Remove carriage return from form data

[jonnewton]

I am using an html form that is returning data from a textarea box. It sends the data via GET to a confirmation page. If users confirm, it sends the data to a MYSQL db.

 

All is well unless someone enters a carriage return (Return key/line break) in their text. If they do, they see a page that says "Bad request! Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand"

 

In the command line, it appears that the carriage return shows up as this: %0D%0A

 

I did a string replace on the confirmation page that replaces that string with a space, but apparently the replacement occurs after the data has been sent to the, um, server in the command line. I don't know of a way to process the data in the original form before it has been sent via GET.

 

Any insight would be very much appreciated.

[kenrbnsn]

Change the method your form uses to "post".

 

Ken

[drummer101]

Do you *aboslutely* have to use $_GET?

$_POST is must simpler and easier, not to mention more elegant to use for textarea submission.

 

Also, %0D%0A = \n

[jonnewton]

I switched to POST and that worked fine. I really appreciate the help guys!