Question

I’m trying to make some auto suggest stuff for an app. But i’m having some problems. I wrote this jquery code to detect when there is a change in the input:

   function soletsgo(){
        $('#theinput').keyup(function(){
          value = $('#theinput').val();
          if ( value.length > 2 ){
            word = $('#theinput').val();
            word.replace(/\s/g, "&nbsp");
            $("#autodatathing").load("../pages/searchy.php?word="+word+"");
        } else {

        }  });  }

And there is a PHP file (searchy.php) that processes some stuff:

<?php
$now = htmlentities($_GET['word']);

echo "<p>";
echo $now;
echo "</p>";
?>

But, when i put in a ‘space’ (known as ‘whitespace’) in the ‘input’, there is no result!
Could someone help?

Answer 1

You should do escape(word) in javascript code, then rawurldecode($_GET['word']) in php. Also if you have issues with utf8 encoding (i had in my past experience) you might consider using this function instead of rawurldecode.