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Re: $-sign in form input names?

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: $-sign in form input names?
Date 2014-11-03 15:54 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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sonnichjensen@gmail.com writes:

> I am working on an existing system, and they have an interesting way
> of operating inputs:
>
> form_name$value_name
>
> Why the $? What is it good for?

It's just a separator.

> They want a way to post data automatically from another system, but I
> cannot handle the $.

Why can't you handle it?  It should appear in $_GET or $_POST just like
any other form control name.

> Some other values such as / would be replaces by
> %xx but that does not work with $

The URL encoding should not matter.  I think you should post a link to a
page that shows this problem, because you might well be doing something
rather odd.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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$-sign in form input names? sonnichjensen@gmail.com - 2014-11-03 07:23 -0800
  Re: $-sign in form input names? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-11-03 15:54 +0000
  Re: $-sign in form input names? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-11-04 01:02 +0000
    Re: $-sign in form input names? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2014-11-04 06:55 +0100
      Re: $-sign in form input names? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-04 10:17 +0100
        Re: $-sign in form input names? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-04 09:23 -0500
          Re: $-sign in form input names? gordonb.2w35u@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2014-11-04 09:35 -0600
            Re: $-sign in form input names? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-04 10:37 -0500
          Re: $-sign in form input names? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-04 21:42 +0100
            Re: $-sign in form input names? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-04 17:01 -0500
              Re: $-sign in form input names? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-04 23:46 +0100
                Re: $-sign in form input names? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-04 21:19 -0500
        Re: $-sign in form input names? Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-11-04 09:31 -0500

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