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Hi

I'm at the end of a fairly big (and my first) Opus project. It uses lots of web interaction to communicate with our online database. As a last addition, I wanted to allow user comments to be posted and have just found out that all the spaces are removed from the variable as it is passed to my webpage.

e.g. 'This bit will not work' becomes 'Thisbitwillnotwork' somewhere between setting the variable and it arriving at my web scipt.

I initially was using the PostWebData action. I subsequently tried:

- InternetPostData script

- Adding quote marks around the variable i.e. = "'" + comment + "'"

- toString()

Up against a very close deadline, I floundered for any solution, so tried replacing all spaces with underscore using javascript replace function (thought I'd try, but it wasn't going to happen).


Finally decided to write a script to search through the string and replace all spaces, but got stuck with 'SetSelection' ("Function Not Found : Check spelling and capitalisation"). Tried restart, reinstall on vista, reinstall on XP to no avail.

The thing is, I don't want to spend hours working out why 'SetSelection' isn't working (even when copying the simple script out of the help files into a new button) when there may be an easy solution.

Any help would really be appreciated.

FornowI'llhavetodecipheranymessagesthatpeoplesend.

Thanks
Dan

Dan1, ...is this still an issue for you?

** Bump **

From tech support below. This solved the problem, but it was definitely an issue using the action and the script method.

Cheers
Dan


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This is not a bug but user error. The data needs to be in the correct CGI encoded format for posting, which is something Opus does automatically when using the web post action, but not when using the web post script because it's more powerful for developers.

The simple answer is to replace the spaces with + symbols, with script something like this:

var data = "This is some text with spaces in it.";

// change spaces to +'s
var array = data.split(" ");
data="";
for(var i=0;i<array.length-1;i++)
{
data += array[i];
data += "+"
}
data+=array[i]

outdata =
InternetPostData(http://www.example.com/xyz.php,
"data=" + data)



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Good to know.

I wonder if there are better ways of handling that (than '+' signs). Maybe converting spaces to charcodes. Maybe putting the string value in extra quotemarks... e.g. '"This is some text with spaces in it."' ????

BTW, I had to do some similar 'extra handling' to not lose tabs and paragraph formatting for data going into SQLite DB (on local client system). I forget specifics.

Ouch!

Okay, it's early Sunday morning and pre-caffeine, but I think you want this:

myString = "This is some text with spaces in it.".split(" ").join("+")

Debug.trace(myString)

Mack

That'd work too.