5 replies to this topic

[liveman]

Hello,
Ok well I created a script for AIM to log who clicked the button...ok well It works great with 1 exception...whenever there is a space it messes it up, and only puts the letters before the space...so I was thinking of ways to defeat that problem.

The first thing is to use ereg function, but one problem...what would I look for &nsbp; ? or another thing...that calls the space ok...if anyone has any other suggestions..please tell me!

[tiki]

Try   ?

[liveman]

Ok, well what I found out is that its aims problem...in a normal broswer it puts %20 in for spaces, but on aim It cuts words....so when it clicks to send the info it only sends up to the space so that means I need to get there screenname in there...anyone know how I can do that?

[rc69]

  is an htmlentity. It's short for non-breaking space. It's translated by the browser, php sees it exactly as-is.

ereg() does have a pattern to automatically match spaces (i believe its [:space:], but i don't use that form of regex, so i don't know).
So why not try replacing the spaces with an underscore (_)? That'd be easiest... unless underscores are a bigger part of it.

[kcd]

dosent just normal space bar work.
it dose for me.

Edited by kcd, 17 November 2005 - 09:41 AM.

[Sicloan]

just use a replace(); functions

$string = "hello bob!";

$string = str_replace(" ","_",$string);

output = "hello_bob!";

I also suggest taking a look at the ereg_replace(); php function page...

http://us2.php.net/m...reg-replace.php

Edited by Sicloan, 17 November 2005 - 04:04 PM.