Changing Urls via PHP?

Hi Everyone,


I've partly figured out how to change my URLs but I'm having trouble with fixing the space(%20) that's located in my URL.


I've tried using the str_replace function but it's either not working or I'm not doing in correctly.


My goal is to turn this URL (first one below this statement) into the URL that's below the first one. I'm having a hard time figuring this out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Everyone!


(URL that works but it has %20, which is something I don't want)
http://whatsmyowncarworth.com/auto/florida/key west


(URL that does not work but I'm attempting to make the above URL look like this one)
http://whatsmyowncarworth.com/auto/florida/key-west


My .htaccess code is below as well. Thanks again everyone!

[QUOTE]<?php
include('init.php'); // connection to database




// if city exists...
if (isset($_GET['u'])) {
    // $city = str_replace(' ','-');
    // decode and replace hyphen with space
    // $city = str_replace('-','',urldecode($_GET['u']));
    // $city = str_replace('%20','-',urldecode($_GET['u']));
       $city = str_replace('%20','-',urldecode($_GET['u']));
    // $city = str_replace(urldecode($_GET['u']),' ','-');
    // $city = str_replace('','-',urldecode($_GET['u'])); 
    // $city = str_replace('-','','%20','-', urldecode($_GET['u']));
    
    // if value contains only letters, numbers or spaces...
    if ( preg_match('~^[a-z0-9 ]+$~i',$city) ) {
        // select data from database...
        $data = mysql_query("SELECT State, City FROM cars WHERE City='$city'" );
        if (mysql_num_rows($data) > 0) {
            while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($data)) {
                echo $row["City"].'<br>'; 
                echo $row["State"].'<br>';
                echo 'This is what I get when I echo $_GET '.$_GET['u'].'<br>';
            }
        }
    }
}
?>
[/QUOTE]

PHP:

[QUOTE]RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.*) /auto/cars.php?s=$1&u=$2 [L,NC]
[/QUOTE]

PHP:

 

<?php
include('init.php'); // connection to database

// if city exists...
if (isset($_GET['u'])) {
// $city = str_replace(' ','-');
// decode and replace hyphen with space
// $city = str_replace('-','',urldecode($_GET['u']));
// $city = str_replace('%20','-',urldecode($_GET['u']));
$city = str_replace('%20','-',urldecode($_GET['u']));
echo $city;
exit;
// $city = str_replace(urldecode($_GET['u']),' ','-');
// $city = str_replace('','-',urldecode($_GET['u']));
// $city = str_replace('-','','%20','-', urldecode($_GET['u']));

// if value contains only letters, numbers or spaces...
if ( preg_match('~^[a-z0-9 ]+$~i',$city) ) {
// select data from database...
$data = mysql_query("SELECT State, City FROM cars WHERE City='$city'" );
if (mysql_num_rows($data) > 0) {
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($data)) {
echo $row["City"].'<br>';
echo $row["State"].'<br>';
echo 'This is what I get when I echo $_GET '.$_GET['u'].'<br>';
}
}
}
} else {
echo '$_GET[\'u\'] isn\'t set';
?>
What shows on your browser when you run that?

 

Hey Rukbat,

I appreciate the response but I'm getting a parser error.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end

 

Uhm... URLDecode would turn those %20 into regular spaces, so your str_replace would never actualy fire. That's what URLDecode DOES. No %20 or + would make it past that function as it decodes both % values and +

If you want to turn spaces into hyphens, you should use:
$city = str_replace(' ','-',urldecode($_GET['u']));

Though really server side I would just use the spaces in the database rather than filtering them out just to need to filter them again on output... just do the urldecode and work with that.

Much less your preg_match would never allow values with hyphens past it... or are you just trying to make them spaces not hyphens?

Gah, can't make sense out of that at all.

 

Thanks Deathshadow,

It's now working!

 

I am also appreciate with you.

 

That's a missing ] or } or ). The parser is looking for the closing bracket and runs off the end of the file. If you use an editor that highlights matching brackets, it makes it easier to find the missing one. And an editor that adds the closing one when you open one makes it impossible to miss one.