strings with spaces [Resolved]

Ok, so I have the following function:

Code:

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function gofull()
{
    URL = location.href
    if (URL.search("Date_Found") != -1)
        {
        URL = URL.substring(0,URL.search("Date_Found")-1)
        }
    URL=URL+"?Date_Found="+document.dform.Date_Found.value+"&Last_Known="+document.dform.Last_Known.value
   
    if (document.dform.TagNum.options[document.dform.TagNum.selectedIndex].value != 1)
        URL = URL+"&TagNum="+document.dform.TagNum.options[document.dform.TagNum.selectedIndex].value
    if (document.dform.SYMP.value != "")
        URL = URL+"&SYMP="+document.dform.SYMP.value
    if (document.dform.User.options[document.dform.User.selectedIndex].value != 1)
        URL = URL+"&user="+document.dform.User.options[document.dform.User.selectedIndex].value
    if (document.dform.impact.value != "")
        URL = URL+"&impact="+document.dform.impact.value

        URL = URL+"&act_prod_date="+document.dform.act_prod_date.value
        location.href = URL
}
-->
</script>

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It works great except for the fact that the "SYMP" field is a string that will contain spaces. When that field is put into the URL when the form is refreshed, it adds "%20" for each space... and then when I use the following:

PHP Code:

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        <?php
        if(isset($_GET['SYMP']))
            echo "<input type=text name=SYMP size=40 value=" . $_GET['SYMP'] . ">";
        else
            echo "<input type=text name=SYMP size=40 value=\"\">";
        ?>

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it only puts the first word of the string into the textbox.

How do I get it to grab the whole string out of the URL?

When SYMP is set, replace all spaces with another character, maybe dash.
SYMP.replace(" ", "-")

Then when PHP reads it, it can replace all dashes back to spaces.

That only seems to work for the first space.

Please tell me I don't have to resort to this:
http://www.breakingpar.com/bkp/home....256AFB0013D850

only replaces first space???
How are you replacing them?

I was doing this:

Code:

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if (document.dform.SYMP.value != "")
        URL = URL+"&SYMP="+document.dform.SYMP.value.replace(" ","-")

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Look at the Server object, there should be a URLEncode and URLDencode functions. One changes the string to make it URL ready (adds the %20 where spaces are) and the other Dencodes if from URLEncoded back to regular string (the %20 turn back into spaces). Doing a replace space with - or _ while it works, it's not ideal, since a - or _ are (in theory) valid values in the string to begin with (wouldn't want a a space when it wasn't supposed to be there.

TG

Whoopse, just saw that this was PHP, the URLEncode and URLDencode still stand, they are functions built into PHP.

ok... nevermind. I'm an idiot. It was all in how I was feeding it back into the textbox. I don't have to do ANY kind of replacing. It does it automatically.