Masking PHP Results?

[justlukeyou]

Lets say I have a 'Red Widget' and 'Red Ball' in my database.

 

At the moment I am searching for:

 

phpproductdisplay.php?description=red - this displays both items.

 

However, if I search for:

 

phpproductdisplay.php?description=red%widget

 

This displays only the red widget which works fine.

 

However, I want to display the search terms on my site and in the title.  So at the moment.  I am displaying "red%widget".  But I want to display "Red Widget".

 

Is it possible to get 'Red Widget'?

[BlueSkyIS]

urldecode()

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php

 

then

 

ucwords()

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php

[kenrbnsn]

No, urldecode won't work in this situation, since it looks like the OP is searching for the string "red%widget" explicitly (that what is being typed in). You would just use [m]str_replace[m] to remove that character:

<?php
$str = "red%widget";
echo ucwords(str_replace('%',' ',$str));
?>

 

Ken

[justlukeyou]

Thanks kenrbnsn,

 

If I put this code into my page will it only work on "red%widget"?

 

Do I need to tell it to remove the % from whatever I put into the description.  So it would work on :

 

phpproductdisplay.php?description=red%ball

 

<?php$str = "red%widget";echo ucwords(str_replace('%',' ',$str));?>

 

Would I use something like?

 

<?php$str = "'description'";echo ucwords(str_replace('%',' ',$str));?>

 

[kenrbnsn]

I just gave an example of how you would used the function. In you script, you would use:

<?php
echo ucwords(str_replace('%',' ',$_GET['description']));
?>

 

Ken

[justlukeyou]

Hi ken,

 

Thats brilliant, I did have a variation of this however it showed the '' so it was still messy.

 

Many thanks for your brilliant help.

[BlueSkyIS]

No, urldecode won't work in this situation, since it looks like the OP is searching for the string "red%widget" explicitly (that what is being typed in). You would just use [m]str_replace[m] to remove that character:

<?php
$str = "red%widget";
echo ucwords(str_replace('%',' ',$str));
?>

 

Ken

 

quite right. thank you for pointing that out.