[Gordon]

I am trying to get mod rewrite to work I have got it working all but for one thing.

If the URL (usually a product name) contains a "#" symbol like in "#9" the url will not work, (it works in the original .php script using the php formating) it works for everything apart from the "#" symbol is there any way to get this to work please?

Somebody told me about a rewrite log but as usual I have no idea what they are talking about

the rewriteLog says
args=ip=Scientific+Angler+Fishing+Fly+Rod+Salt+water+-+9+2+Piece+#10+Weight

but its lost somewhere... everything followed by a % is lost...

I've done a work around by changing the "#" to "no" but I would prefer the "#" if it is at all possible.

This is the rule I am using for it at present.

RewriteRule ^([^/_]+)\.htm /?ip=$1 [L]

thanks in advance for any help.

[Leader]

N/m, I was going to say just make it say "no" instead but I see you're already doing that...

[Gordon]

Leader I might look daft but I'm not 100% daft LOL

[frank3iii]

Just leave out the #. Any flyfisher (and most other anglers) will know what the weight relates to.

Frank

[oscar]

Gordon

I'm not sure if this is right or not (I'm no mod rewrite expert)

You could always modify it in the url and then do a str_replace at the output end with another php script...so eg change it in the link to read

Scientific+Angler+Fishing+Fly+Rod+Salt+wat er+-+9+2+Piece+num10+Weight

and then on the page that receives the info, have a php script that says :

<?php

$ip=str_replace('num','#',$ip);

?>

Then it should read

Scientific+Angler+Fishing+Fly+Rod+Salt+wat er+-+9+2+Piece+#10+Weight

at the receiving end when you do call it.

Don't know if that's what you are after...my 2 cents. Someone with more mod rewrite experience could probably work a solution out for you

Oscar

[Gordon]

Thanks Oscar that is what I had done but I'm thinking in the future if I come across anther one then I'm screwed because as far as I know we can only use the str_replace for one change. If I'm wrong about this please let me know how to do it.

I was just hoping someone would know how to get around it with the mod rewrite then I would not have to go through all the sites I am going to use it on.

[infoTim]

(never mind, totally misread the problem)

[oscar]

Is this exactly what the rewrite log says?

Scientific+Angler+Fishing+Fly+Rod+Salt+wat er+-+9+2+Piece+#10+Weight

Why is there a blank in 'wat er'? That would translate to wat%20er and whenever I do rewrites I always take out spaces...

If it is the # that's causing the problem it could be that # in most urls read as 'bookmarks'? I don't know if it will work but maybe 'escape' the character with \#. I don't know if it will work - I've never used the exclude ^ before in my mod rewrites and I usually specify what I want in the string rather than what I don't want ie [A-Za-z0-9_\+\#]+

^([\#^/_]+)\.htm /?ip=$1 [L]

I hope it works for you but like I said, I'm not a mod expert...
Oscar

[Gordon]

Thanks anyway Oscar I cannot get it to work, maybe I'll have to stick with the way I am doing it now. I'ts not the best way but it works until I come across another symbol then I'm screwed LOL

[infoTim]

str_replace will take arrays, so you can do $ip = str_replace(array('foo','bar'), array('foof', 'barf'), $ip); etc. as needed if you find another symbol that's causing problems.

[Gordon]

Thanks infospongellc I do mine like this
<?php print stripslashes(str_replace("xxxxxx","xxxxxx",$row["producturl"])); ?>

If I were to do this would it work do you know? or am I not doing it the way you mean?
<?php print stripslashes(str_replace(array('foo','bar'), array('foof', 'barf'),$row["producturl"])); ?>

oops I left my ID in LOL

[infoTim]

I think that's what you're after. It would change foo -> foof and bar -> barf in the product url string.

- Tim

[Gordon]

That is a great bit of code infospogellc, I did not know you could use something like that to create more than one alteration. Thank you. That solves all my problems now if another wierd symbol comes up in the future.