Re: rawurlencode problem

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On 10/19/2015 04:56 PM, Derek Turner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using this:
> 
> echo "<ol class=\"reader\">";
>     while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()):
>     echo "<li class=\"reader\"> <a href = \"#".rawurlencode($row
> ['name'])."\">" . $row['name'] . "</a></li>\n\n";
>     endwhile;
>     echo "</ol>";
> 
> to provide links for screen-readers to various points in my page
> $row['name'] may and does contain white spaces in many records.
> 
> The code works fine without the rawurlencode but fails validation
> 
> similarly this code lower down:
> 
> while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()):
>         echo "<h2 id =\"" .rawurlencode($row['name']). "\">" . $row
> ['name'] . "</h2>";
> etc.
> 
> works without the rawurlencode but fails validation as 'id' must not 
> contain white space.
> 
> SO the link href and the id are identical apart from the leading #
> 
> PROBLEM: this passes validation but DOES NOT WORK. Clicking the links 
> does not move the page. Without the second rawurlencode it works!
> 
> What am I missing????
> 

The standard is to use a numeric id in the database, it's a lot easier
to validate that it seems to be okey and numeric index in the database
is faster than varchar/text based.

I would recommend a redesign of your database and it will solve your
problem too.

-- 

 //Aho

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rawurlencode problem Derek Turner <frderek@suremail.je> - 2015-10-19 14:56 +0000
  Re: rawurlencode problem Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2015-10-19 17:18 +0200
    Re: rawurlencode problem Derek Turner <frderek@suremail.je> - 2015-10-19 15:48 +0000
      Re: rawurlencode problem Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-20 00:02 +0200
        Re: rawurlencode problem Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2015-10-21 09:40 +0200
    Re: rawurlencode problem "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2015-10-20 18:33 +0200
  Re: rawurlencode problem "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2015-10-19 21:27 +0200
    Re: rawurlencode problem Derek Turner <frderek@suremail.je> - 2015-10-19 19:43 +0000
      Re: rawurlencode problem Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-20 00:03 +0200
      Re: rawurlencode problem "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2015-10-20 07:10 +0200
        Re: rawurlencode problem "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2015-10-20 07:21 +0200
          Re: rawurlencode problem Derek Turner <frderek@suremail.je> - 2015-10-20 08:29 +0000
            Re: rawurlencode problem "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2015-10-20 18:29 +0200
        Re: rawurlencode problem Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2015-10-27 14:01 +0100
          Re: rawurlencode problem Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2015-10-27 14:04 +0100
  Re: rawurlencode problem Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-20 00:00 +0200
  Re: rawurlencode problem Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-10-19 19:35 -0400
    Re: rawurlencode problem Derek Turner <frderek@suremail.je> - 2015-10-20 08:34 +0000
      Re: rawurlencode problem Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-21 13:54 +0200

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