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Asked: 2026-06-03T04:55:02+00:00

I let users write and then post what they have written to my MYSQL

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I let users write and then post what they have written to my MYSQL database, using PHP. I have been sending the strings as URLs and then $_GET[‘string’] in the php and then putting them in the database. I always have to take care of the spaces in the string by replacing them with %20. And then I had to replace all kinds of different characters on top of that in order for the URLs to work. This is a losing battle and the users expect their strings to be saved but if they contain a character I have not thought of, this will not be the case. I have even tried sending along the strings as NSData in a POST but that did not seem to save the strings either.

How can I be sure the users’ strings will save, no matter what crazy characters they type?

Thanks,
R

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  1. Editorial Team

    Encode your data using NSUTF8StringEncoding before sending it to the server, and always use POST to send data to the server instead of GET. Also, it’s a good idea to stop using ASCII altogether and to replace it with Unicode wherever you use strings. UTF-8 is a very convenient and compact Unicode encoding.

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