PHP email string problem

[NickFitz]

From: http://www.worldpay.com/support/kb/bg/pdf/rhtml.pdf



Is this the mechanism you're using? Looks like you need + for space as doodab suggested. (I always thought URLEncode stuck in %20?)

I just checked with:

<?php
$foo = array("foo", "bar bar");
$bar = 1;
echo urlencode("blah $foo[$bar]\n");
?>

and got the output:

blah+bar+bar%0A

[mudskipper]

Looks like different languages do different things...

http - URL encoding the space character: + or %20? - Stack Overflow

[NickFitz]

Looks like different languages do different things...

http - URL encoding the space character: + or %20? - Stack Overflow

Either way, PHP's urlencode() uses + for space, which is almost certainly what WorldPay wants

[xoggoth]

Cheers again. urlencode does ensure sending of the full text but this is a plain text email, so now the customer gets:

1+Plant+Guides+Pack+%26pound%3B11.50+each%2C+total ++%26pound%3B11.50+%0D% etc

The way a WP callback normally works is pretty simple, you post a value to Worldpay eg:

<form name="order" action="https://secure.worldpay.com/wcc/purchase" method=post>
<input type="text" name="name">
etc

and then process their callback exactly as if it had been submitted directly from your form eg:

<?php
$name = $_POST['name']

I had no problems at all creating variables with my jscript cart but having trouble doing what appears to be exactly the same darn thing in PHP!

Anyway, its Friday, off to the village club. Ta very much all. You are dismissed for now, will rehire you (for unpaid work experience) on Monday.

[NickFitz]

In the callback, try

$description = urldecode($_POST['description']); 

(or whatever). Although it seems a bit odd that they send back the URL encoded version, presumably double-encoded if PHP's automatic processing is decoding it to the encoded version

[xoggoth]

Hey! urlencode the sent string, urldecode the received string works! Any sane person would imagine the string would end up as it was!

Anyway cheers Nick (again). Definitely going for a drink now.

[NickFitz]

Hey! urlencode the sent string, urldecode the received string works! Any sane person would imagine the string would end up as it was!

Anyway cheers Nick (again). Definitely going for a drink now.