Help with urldecode function

[rjseals]

Hi,
I am kind of new to php and am trying to use the urlencode and urldecode functions. I think I got the urlencode function to work but I am having trouble getting the urldecode function to work. I am basically trying to put the sections from the url into variables. This is what I have so far.

php:

page1.php
//connect to database, sql query etc
for ($count = 1; $row = mysql_fetch_row ($result); ++$count)
{
$phone=$row[0];
$email=$row[1];
$first_name=$row[2];
$last_name =$row[3];



$link = "$first_name+$last_name+$phone+$email";

echo '<a href=&quot;page2.php?foo=', rawurlencod($link), '&quot;>Edit Record</a>';

{
?>


This returns the url

'

http://.../page2.php?foo=first+last+DO+number@email'

I am assuming that you use the urldecode to break this back down but am confused when I read the php manual about urldecode. I have also searched online for examples without any luck. I have also done some research on parse_url but dont think that will work in this case.

Like I said what I am trying to do is to break down the url values and put them into variables on page2.php. The reason I am doing this this way is because I want the option of modifying a record in a database and the link using the urlencode will pass the the returned values. I cant use a form because there is normally more than one record returned with my query.

If anyone could at least point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance

 

[sleipnir214]

PHP will do all the decoding for you automagically. An input of the type

http://.../page2.php?foo=first+last+DO+number@email

is nothing more than a GET-method form input. The value you need will be in $_GET['foo'].

Of course, since you're talking about passing multiple data between two pages, I recommend you take a look at session variables. There is a good introduction here:

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

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[vbkris]

yup that will do it.
$foo=$_GET['foo'];
$foo=rawurldecode($foo);

echo $foo;

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[sleipnir214]

Actually, I've found that rawurldecode() doesn't do it.

This will:

print urldecode ($_GET['foo']);

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[vbkris]

i gave it as raw... because he is using rawurlencode....


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[rjseals]

Thanks for everyones help I got it