Question

My form action is set to a php file like this:

<form name="addstudent" action="includes/data.php?act=enquiry" >
    <input type="text" name="studentname" class="univtext default" value="Name" />
    <input type="text" name="studentemail" class="univtext default" value="Email" />
    <input type="text" name="studentno" class="univtext default" value="Contact No." />
    <input type="hidden" name="active" value="enquiry" />
    <input type="submit" value="Apply" class="univbut" >
</form>

and my php file data.php is:

<?php
    switch($_GET['act'])
    {
        case "enquiry":
        include_once('globalvariables.php');
    $dataUrl='http://localhost:8080/databasee/track?country='.SITE_ACCESS_COUNTRY.'&region=delhi';
    $json=file_get_contents($dataUrl);
    echo $dataUrl;
    echo($json);
    }
?>

My dataurl is formed correctly but file_get_contents() function is not getting the value from the url (this url returns json true or false) in other cases it working fine, it’s just here I am not able to get it working.

I found that &region parameter in my url converts to ®ion.

Answer 1

Try:

$url = "http://localhost:8080/databasee/track?country=";
$param = rawurlencode(SITE_ACCESS_COUNTRY);
$contents = file_get_contents($url.$param);
echo $contents;

See: If you’re opening a URI with special characters, such as spaces, you need to encode the URI with urlencode().
Hope it helps