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URL encoding problems... - El Forum - 03-30-2011
[eluser]Rob Corley[/eluser]
Hello,
Apologies first if I am posting in the wrong place!
I am trying to pass a filename in the URL, so I am using urlencode to encode something like this:-
http://www.example.com/page/file name.ext/some folder name/
I then want to use the strings ‘file name.ext’ and ‘some folder name’ in the page controller. However codeigniter when I retrieve the URL string returns it with the . and the spaces as underscores:-
‘files_name_ext’
So I have no way to differentiate between the 2. (some filenames contain multiple dots so I can’t just replace the 4th last character).
Many thanks in advance!
URL encoding problems... - El Forum - 03-30-2011
[eluser]John_Betong_002[/eluser]
Take a look at the User Guide for the URI Class
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/uri.html
Code:
// Your code where the URL is decoded
// Beware: my code not tried or tested :)
echo '<br />',
$filename = $this->uri->uri_string();
echo '<br />',
str_replace('_', '.', $filename);
die;
URL encoding problems... - El Forum - 03-30-2011
[eluser]danmontgomery[/eluser]
This is PHP functionality, not Codeigniter. See http://us.php.net/variables.external:
Quote:Dots and spaces in variable names are converted to underscores. For example <input name="a.b" /> becomes $_REQUEST["a_b"].
There have been workarounds posted here before, the first one I came up with is: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/94091/