Why does a html form variable posting gets truncated on a php receive ?
August 28th, 2009 | 
Author: I have a HTML form which send a variable to my server side php code via a javascript ajax function. like
var url = "search.php" + "?strsrch=" + s + "&choice=" + c;
var mygetrequest = ajaxRequest(url);
The problem is when the variable s or c contains a # in between, the php program truncates the string on that #. Is that something normal in php ? I can not understand the situation, I am not a very experienced coder of php though.
Thanks for any help in advance.
That’s because you didn’t escape your strings. Any special character will mess it up.
var url = "search.php" + "?strsrch=" + escape(s) + "&choice=" + escape(c);
(Imagine what would happen if s was "test&hackvar=13" and you didn’t escape it. It would result in a new variable being injected into your url)
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That’s because you didn’t escape your strings. Any special character will mess it up.
var url = "search.php" + "?strsrch=" + escape(s) + "&choice=" + escape(c);
(Imagine what would happen if s was "test&hackvar=13" and you didn’t escape it. It would result in a new variable being injected into your url)
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