Question

I’m posting data using jquery/ajax and PHP at the backend. Problem being, when I input something like ‘Jack & Jill went up the hill’ I’m only receiving ‘Jack’ when it gets to the backend.

I have thrown an error at the frontend before that data is sent which alerts ‘Jack & Jill went up the hill’.

When I put die(print_r($_POST)); at the very top of my index page I’m only getting [key] => Jack

How can I be losing the data?

I thought It may have been my filter;

<?php

function filter( $data ) {
    $data = trim( htmlentities( strip_tags( mb_convert_encoding( $data, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8") ) ) ); 
    if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc() ) { 
        $data = stripslashes( $data ); 
    } 
    //$data = mysql_real_escape_string( $data ); 
    return $data;
}

echo "<xmp>" . filter("you & me") . "</xmp>";

?>

but that returns fine in the test above you & me which is in place after I added die(print_r($_POST));.

Can anyone think of how and why this is happening?

Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

You are most likely failing to URL encode the data. The & character separates key-value pairs in submitted form data.

Use encodeURIComponent for this