How to deal with spaces in a PHP request

Question

Let's say you have two buttons. Their ids are:

bob
bobs burgers

You use jquery to .load a php page in a div element like follows:

var teamSelect = $(this).attr('id');
$("#loadTables").load("php/leagueTable.php?team="+teamSelect);

Now bob will run just fine, but bobs burgers has a space and does not work. The address ends up being

"php/leagueTable.php?team=bobs"

I have no control over the fact that there will be spaces in the button Ids. The buttons are generated from a database and these names will always have spaces. How can I deal with this?

encode uricomponent should work. please refer [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6544564/url-encode-a-string-in-jquery-for-an-ajax-request][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6544564/url-encode-a-string-in-jquery-for-an-ajax-request — Elixir Techne, Mar 27 '14 at 04:29

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 27 '14 at 04:29

If these values doesn't contain quotes, then enclose these values with single quotes.

Like:

'bob'
'bob burgers'

So that when it will passed to the url it will be

php/leagueTable.php?team='bob'
php/leagueTable.php?team='bob burgers'

Then you can just strip them off afterwards with trim().

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '14 at 04:29

You need to use encodeURIComponent to encode the url

$("#loadTables").load("php/leagueTable.php?team="+encodeURIComponent(teamSelect));

The encodeURIComponent() method encodes a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) component by replacing each instance of certain characters by one, two, three, or four escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character (will only be four escape sequences for characters composed of two "surrogate" characters), reference.

Works just like that. Thank you. – tones31 Mar 27 '14 at 04:32 — tones31, Mar 27 '14 at 04:32

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 27 '14 at 04:29

0

As per w3.org

The value must be unique amongst all the IDs in the element's home
subtree and must contain at least one character. The value must not 
contain any space characters.

You can find more here

answered Mar 27 '14 at 04:29

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