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Hello,
As posted numerious times in this forum, users encounter situations where CI changes certain characters in a URI to underscores. And in most cases this can be resolved by changing the URI protocol to "REQUEST_URI" or whatever seems to work on your server.
Although I have used this method in the past with success, I'm concerned that changing the URI protocol will introduce unexpected results in other parts of the application.
For example, I have a CI controller which accepts a URI containing decimal numbers. The numbers are passed into a function via the argument list like:
Code:
function crunch_number($decimal)
{
echo $decimal;
}
INPUT: www.mydomain.com/mycontroller/crunch_number/5.369
OUTPUT: 5_369
Where, CI converts the decimal numbers to strings with an underscore
If I do not want to change the URI protocol I simply do this:
Code:
function crunch_number($decimal)
{
echo str_replace('_', '.', $decimal);
}
INPUT: www.mydomain.com/mycontroller/crunch_number/5.369
OUTPUT: 5.369
And life is good.
The point of my post is, can a developer experience unexpected concequences when they change the URI Protocol to fix one thing then discover that change affects something else in the program?
Thanks,
Chris
