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Impossible retrieve movie with in title the & character.
posted by insideepSTAFFMOD on July 9, 2016 at 12:26 PM
Hi, I tried to send a search request but the movies that it cannot find are just the movies that contain an & in the title. I work in PHP and I tried to send the query string with the functions rawurlencode and urlencode. The results are the same. No results found. There's some solution? Thanks in advance.
Reply by insideep
on July 9, 2016 at 1:37 PM
For now I solved by myself in this way: str_replace("amp;", "and", str_replace("&", "",$query)) but is not an elegant solutions. I wait for any brilliant idea!
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 12, 2016 at 9:45 AM
Hi inside,
You should be encoding your query string. CGI or URI escaping should both work. A test string "Maya & Marty":
URI escaped
CGI escaped
Cheers.
Reply by insideep
on July 13, 2016 at 11:42 AM
Thanks @Travis, I will try it soon!