So you're saying that I should be able to pass the = sign in just fine
into the fopen call with no errors? I understand what you mean that if
= was what the variable was defined as, then THAT is where I'd use
urlencode ;) I wasn't too sure about that, but now I am.
Quite odd that it reports errors then when passing in an = sign.
Perhaps PHP does not like to load url's like that..
> You would only want URLEncode if "thething" had the "=" in it as part
of the
> data...
>
> "http://whatever.com/foo.php?operand="; . urlencode("=")
>
> might be a URL for math geeks to talk about the "=" sign :-)
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> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:45 PM
> Subject: fopen a URL with = in it
>
>
> > Something that's been driving me crazy for a few days. Could it
> > be a bug in PHP?
> >
> > Using the fopen function (or even the file function), I want to
open a
> > web page for read. Sounds easy? Well, say I want to have an "="
sign in
> > the URL.. well that is where the problem comes. I have tried things
> > like this:
> >
> > $eq = urlencode("=");
> > $URL = "http://www.something.com/file.php?thing".$eq."thething";;;
> >
> > I have tried many other combinations as well.. the problem is this:
> > when PHP calls fopen(), it does not allow the = sign in the variable
> > passed in. So I figured I should escape it..
> >
> > fopen("http://www.something.com/file.php?thing\=thething","r";;);
> >
> > But that did not work either. It allows me to pass it in, but then
it
> > tries to open the literal \= in the url, which of course doesn't
> > exist. The url has just an =. I thought encoding the whole or part
URL
> > would work. well it loads the page, but the page itself doesn't
> > recognize the encoded = sign as being an = sign..
> >
> > Bah! Anyone have any ideas.. ?
> >
> >
> > Corey Chapman
> > Xnull CEO
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