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Re: decode encoded url [message #178692 is a reply to message #178691]

Tue, 17 July 2012 14:17

Erwin Moller
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On 7/17/2012 3:57 PM, cerr wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 6:08:05 AM UTC-7, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 7/17/2012 3:52 AM, "ï¿½lvaro G. Vicario" wrote:
>> > El 17/07/2012 7:47, cerr escribiï¿½/wrote:
>> >> I have a url that refers to a css background like:
>> >> url(./sites/all/themes/marinelli/img/backgrounds/men&#039;s_and_lad ys&#039;_nights.jpg);
>> >>
>> >> But now I'm wondering how I possibly should name that file or how i
>> >> can decode this string to a url the filesystem & the browser can read?
>> >
>> > If the string is supposed to be HTML, you need to convert it into plain
>> > text. It can be extremaly tricky becase the two most obvious functions
>> > don't seem to work as advertised:
>> >
>> > http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php
>> > http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php
>> >
>> > Another alternative is to use mb_convert_encoding():
>> >
>> > <?php
>> > $html =
>> > 'url(./sites/all/themes/marinelli/img/backgrounds/men&#039; s_and_ladys&#039;_nights.jpg);';
>> >
>> > var_dump(mb_convert_encoding($html, 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES'));
>> >
>> > Then, it's pretty straightforward to create the file.
>> >
>> >
>> > If the string is supposed to be plain text already, I see no problem.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> It's a URL, so the correct function to use would be urldecode().
>
> But when I name the file
> men's_and_ladys'_nights.jpg (what erldecode() gives me), it doesn't work...
>

The string was 2 times encoded.
Try to decode it again.
echo urldecode("men's_and_ladys'_nights.jpg");
gives
men's_and_ladys'_nights.jpg

I wonder why it was encoded like that?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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		decode encoded url By: cerr on Tue, 17 July 2012 05:47
		Re: decode encoded url By: J.O. Aho on Tue, 17 July 2012 07:00
		Re: decode encoded url By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Tue, 17 July 2012 07:52
		Re: decode encoded url By: cerr on Tue, 17 July 2012 13:04
		Re: decode encoded url By: Christoph Becker on Tue, 17 July 2012 15:41
		Re: decode encoded url By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Wed, 18 July 2012 08:29
		Re: decode encoded url By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 17 July 2012 13:08
		Re: decode encoded url By: cerr on Tue, 17 July 2012 13:57
		Re: decode encoded url By: Erwin Moller on Tue, 17 July 2012 14:17
		Re: decode encoded url By: Peter H. Coffin on Tue, 17 July 2012 14:56
		Re: decode encoded url By: Michael Fesser on Tue, 17 July 2012 15:18
		Re: decode encoded url By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 17 July 2012 19:26

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