HOw to escape or unescape the data from a php form..

[tommytx]

http%3A%2F%2Fmydomain1.com%2Fping3.php%0D%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmydomain2.com%2Fping3.php%0D%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmydomain3.com%2Fping2.php%0D%0A

 

This is the $_Get from a form sent by a text area...

 

How do  I escape or unescape this to get the basic original data that was in the

 

Here is the origina data before the form sent it to a php program that grabbed the data via $_GET

 

<textarea>

http://mydomain1.com/ping3.php

http://mydomain2.com/ping3.php

http://mydomain3.com/ping2.php

</textarea>

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Tom

 

[Guest]

$rawdata = url_decode($_GET['textareafield']);

 

$rawdata will then contain the text within the form field "textareafield" (replace it with the name of your textarea's field name), without all the url entities.

[tommytx]

Thanks a bunch... worked great....

Small note.. for anyone else using this... I could not get it to work with the url_decode function, but when looking it up it appears it should be urldecode.... but you are the best... thanks..... problem solved...

But what is a little _ here and there among friends..

 

Thanks again....