Geting rid of spaces in a url

urbanxtremes · 29th June 2008, 05:44 PM

Hello,

Does anyone know of a way that I can remove the spaces from a link and place an underscore; the link is calling the page "header" and "id" from the database.

<a href='news_content.php?id=$id=$hpagesheader' title='$hpagesheader'>

This is what I am getting in the url:
news_content.php?id=4=What%20not%20to%20do%20on%20 an%20internship

But I would like this:
news_content.php?id=4=What_not_to_do_on_an_interns hip

Any ideas?

Cheers

percepts · 29th June 2008, 07:00 PM

look up str_replace in the PHP manual

Simon · 30th June 2008, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by urbanxtremes

Code:

<a href='news_content.php?id=$id=$hpagesheader' title='$hpagesheader'>

I suspect what you really want is

Code:

<a href='news_content.php?id=4&header=Some_header_string' title='Some header string'>

Using = to seperate the id and the header are going to complicate things in your news_content.php script

As percepts said, you need str_replace

PHP Code:

  echo "<a href='news_content.php?id=$id&header=".str_replace(' ', '_', $hpagesheader)."' title='$hpagesheader'>";

TygerTyger · 30th June 2008, 09:09 AM

Code:

echo "<a href='news_content.php?id=$id&amp;header=".str_replace(' ', '_', $hpagesheader)."' title='$hpagesheader'>";

Don't forget when you're getting something from the database you will need to change it back again, replacing underscores with spaces, notice the order in str_replace has been switched.

Code:

$hpageswhatever = mysql_real_escape_string(str_replace('_', ' ', $_POST['hpagesheader']));

urbanxtremes · 30th June 2008, 03:42 PM

It is a good thing we never meet up for a drink, as I would end up p**sed and shouting the usual geezers tout “I love you guys”

Thanks for your help.