Redirect with spaces in the $_GET varible???

[itsallgood]

Alright guys,

I'm redirecting to the login page with this "newpage.php?name= John Smith"

Ok, the name gets to the login page, as when i use echo $_Get['redirect']

Its right, both names are still there, John and Smith

BUT, when the page actually redirects to newpage.php

The name has become just John. The smith has gone. It must be because of the space, but like i say, its all good up til the login page redirecting to the new page.

So, what part in login.php is stripping out spaces, and where is the part that redirects (theres so many "redirects" in there )

Cheers guys!

[$userdata]

try replacing spaces with underscores (_), it will work alot better and look alot cleaner.

[drathbun]

urlencode() will take a URL and encode it so that spaces are replaced by %20 and other special characters are handled as well.

[itsallgood]

Ok thanks guys,

But where abouts in the login.php does it actually redirect after a correct username and password is entered?

I found this:

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if( $session_id 						$url = ( !empty($HTTP_POST_VARS['redirect']) ) ? str_replace('&', '&', htmlspecialchars($HTTP_POST_VARS['redirect'])) : "index.$phpEx";
						 redirect(append_sid($url, true));//redirect(append_sid($url, true));
}

Which is seems right, but $HTTP_POST_VARS['redirect'] already has the Second name removed???

Thanks again.

(p.s $userdata, the spaces are required as its the persons name, and there are already 300 users. cheers for the idea though man.)

[itsallgood]

Forget that guys, thanks again.

I actually used $userdatas idea, i sent the varible with _ using;

$usename = str_replace(" " , "_" , $usename);

then on the other page, i changed it back using:

$usename = str_replace("_" , " " , $usename);


Thanks for your help

[drathbun]

Forget that guys, thanks again.

I actually used $userdatas idea, i sent the varible with _ using;

$usename = str_replace(" " , "_" , $usename);

then on the other page, i changed it back using:

$usename = str_replace("_" , " " , $usename);

Then what do you do if someone has a username as "User_Name"

You will change the _ back into a space, when it was an _ all along, correct?

[itsallgood]

Forget that guys, thanks again.

I actually used $userdatas idea, i sent the varible with _ using;

$usename = str_replace(" " , "_" , $usename);

then on the other page, i changed it back using:

$usename = str_replace("_" , " " , $usename);

Then what do you do if someone has a username as "User_Name"

You will change the _ back into a space, when it was an _ all along, correct?

lol good point matey, and i wouldnt of even thought of that.

Lucky this fourm has been made only for the 200 or so users that have been added with the csv mod, and no-one else will be added.

Thanks for everyones help.

Regards.