How can I change the "+" in the search string?

Hi guys,

Do you know how I can change the "+" to "-" in the search string (osCommerce).

Example:

http://example.com/search_result.php?keywords=asd+asd

should look:

http://example.com/search_result.php?keywords=asd-asd

How can I do that?

I think there are two functions that could be related to the problem...but I am not a programmer, so I need help:

  function tep_sanitize_string($string) {
    $string = ereg_replace(' +', ' ', trim($string));

    return preg_replace("/[<>]/", '_', $string);
  }


// Break up $search_str on whitespace; quoted string will be reconstructed later
    $pieces = split('[[:space:]]+', $search_str);
    $objects = array();
    $tmpstring = '';
    $flag = '';

    for ($k=0; $k<count($pieces); $k++) {
      while (substr($pieces[$k], 0, 1) == '(') {
        $objects[] = '(';
        if (strlen($pieces[$k]) > 1) {
          $pieces[$k] = substr($pieces[$k], 1);
        } else {
          $pieces[$k] = '';
        }
      }

      $post_objects = array();

      while (substr($pieces[$k], -1) == ')')  {
        $post_objects[] = ')';
        if (strlen($pieces[$k]) > 1) {
          $pieces[$k] = substr($pieces[$k], 0, -1);
        } else {
          $pieces[$k] = '';
        }
      }

PHP:

 

Hey,

Browsers normaly make added keywords with a "+" symbol.

So you would need to do this when the user submits the form, you can use php but might be quicker to just use a small javascript function.

If you can post the "search form" I can do it for ya.

 

If you use:

$new_string=str_replace("+","-",$QUERY_STRING);

Would creata the string "keywords=asd-asd". Using either the str_replace function or the ereg_replace function works. The ereg_replace function is the POSIX compliant version of the function.

 

Thanks, guys!

ctdp, that did the trick!