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How to send & as data using _POST method using Ajax

Mar 24th, 2008

Hi All,
I am trying to send some data using Ajax and recieve that data in php code using _POST method.

But my data contains "&" and _POST method takes it as a seperating token and data after tht does not get passed. Does anyone has a solution to this.

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params = "q="+str+"&p="+str1;  //here str1 contains data which has &
 
 
  xmlHttp.open("POST",url,false);
  xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
  xmlHttp.send(params);
params = "q="+str+"&p="+str1;  //here str1 contains data which has &


  xmlHttp.open("POST",url,false);
  xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
  xmlHttp.send(params);

And on server side when I use
$posted = &$_POST ;
it takes & as a seperator which is present as data.

Please someone let me know the workaround or approach to this.

Last edited by peter_budo; Mar 24th, 2008 at 7:20 am. Reason: Keep It Organized - please use [code] tags

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Re: How to send & as data using _POST method using Ajax

Mar 24th, 2008

try encoding your str1 with encodeURIComponent

more about this at w3schools

Last edited by johnsquibb; Mar 24th, 2008 at 11:33 am. Reason: typo

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Re: How to send & as data using _POST method using Ajax

Mar 25th, 2008

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Originally Posted by johnsquibb

try encoding your str1 with encodeURIComponent

more about this at w3schools

Thanks John for the input. This what I have done. If one wants to encode and decode the URL in javascript then above reference is fine. In my case i needed to encode at javascript and and decode inside php. The function to be used inside php code is

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   preg_replace('/%([0-9a-f]{2})/ie', 'chr(hexdec($1))', (string) $p);

$p is the string which has encoded value. And the first 2 parameters just does enough to decode back whatever [CODE ] encodeURIComponent [/CODE] has done.

Thanks

Last edited by rajivloharuka; Mar 25th, 2008 at 2:38 am.

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Re: How to send & as data using _POST method using Ajax

Mar 27th, 2008

just out of curiosity, would str_replace not have worked easier for this?
You have a string (as a variable at least) and you know what other string is inside of it (or could be inside of it), and you know what you want to replace it with.

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
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