Not able to Pass content containing a url with parameters through $_POST

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This is really weird. I have a textbox inside a form. On clicking the submit button, the content of the textbox gets posted to page2.php

If the textbox contains a text like

This is a sample url 
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=karnataka+badminton+association+bangalore&ie=UTF-8&ei=w4_lUNWmJozjrAfSkYGYBA&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAA

Now when i hit submit, i am echoing the content in page2.php and this is what i get:

//echo $_POST['message'];

This is a sample url 
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=karnataka

I am getting the message but the URL gets cut after the first '+'. Any ideas how to get this work ?

I even checked with firebug the POST request and there it correctly displays the complete url.

NEW EDIT: I am trying this with ajax now.

There is nothing wrong with that code and a test of the exact code works fine here. — Rudi Visser, Jan 11 '13 at 09:26
@RudiVisser, thanks. i see it is working fine in your example...i modified my script to use ajax...and it still giving the same problem..i know i am doing a mistake from my side but not able to track it... — Abhishek Saha, Jan 11 '13 at 09:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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You should encode the url first. You can use encodeURIComponent(str) or encodeURI(str) embedded in javascript to do so. See: Encode URL in JavaScript?

You should then use urldecode/rawurldecode to decode the url into its native form. You can also store the decoded form and decode the url in php / javascript as needed. See:http://php.net/manual/en/function.rawurlencode.php

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered Jan 11 '13 at 09:37

Howard Grimberg

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Appologies for my late reply. Yes, that was exactly the error. When i was passing parameters through javascript, the '+' symbol in the url was clashing with the concatenate '+' of javascript. Thanks. – Abhishek Saha Jan 12 '13 at 18:48

Not able to Pass content containing a url with parameters through $_POST

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