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Re: rawurlencode problem

From "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: rawurlencode problem
Date 2015-10-20 18:33 +0200
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On 10/19/2015 05:18 PM, Erwin Moller wrote:

> My advice: Simply replace all offending characters (backslashes spaces
> etc) that might occur in your $row["name"], and use what is left for id
> and #.

Would advice against that, say you replace those characters with an
empty string,

"Dutch House"
"DutchHouse"

will be the same and you will get an issue.

> Alternatively, encode with something else, like: base64
> http://php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php
> That way you will get safe characters for id and hash (but not really
> readable for most humans).

You can use the id from the database instead, sure it's not directly
more understandable, but far easier to check which row in the database
you are working with and generally shorter 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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