Are you specifying a dataType in your ajax call? Try setting it to "text" if
you are expecting a plain text response.
Or you can try setting your headers in PHP:
<?php
header("Content-type: text/plain");
echo "A+ Magazine";
?>
-Hector
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Alexandre Plennevaux <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> well the missing "+" sign is in the returned (loaded) html data, not
> in the url variables. there are none.
>
> basically i do a
>
> $('#container').load(href);
>
> what gets display in the container is "A magazine" instead of "A+ magazine"
> .
>
> if in my php script i urlencode($string) the data, then the + sign is
> displayed. non sense...
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:04 AM, James <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Could you post how you're doing the .load() jQuery part?
> > It sounds like you're passing it through the url, like:
> > $.load("page.php"+myVar);
> > In this case, you should use some kind of Javascript function to
> > encode the variable:
> > $.load("page.php?q="+encodeURIComponent(myVar));
> >
> > Else, it's recommended you should try putting the data in as a
> > separate parameter:
> > $.load("page.php", {q:myVar});
> > the + sign should not be converted. Note that if you do this you're
> > POST-ing the data.
> >
> > On Mar 20, 5:14 am, Alexandre Plennevaux <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> Hello, i tried that, but htmlentities("A+") echos "A+", so it does not
> >> convert it.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Martijn Houtman
> >>
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Mar 20, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Alexandre Plennevaux wrote:
> >>
> >> >> i'm doing an ajax call via the load() function. The fetched string
> >> >> contains the "+" sign, and it gets removed in the resulting html. Why
> >> >> is that?
> >> >> note: i'm using php. The only way i found to have the string shown,
> is
> >> >> to urlencode() it. But i don't want to urlencode() entire texts that
> >> >> should remain human-readable.
> >> >> I'm sure there is an obvious solution, however i can't seem to find
> it.
> >>
> >> > try htmlentities() rather than urlencode() (PHP). I believe the plus
> sign is
> >> > interpreted as a space. Please do note that this escapes _all_ HTML
> code, so
> >> > it will not be interpreted as HTML (if it contains any).
> >>
> >> > Regards,
> >> > --
> >> > Martijn.
> >>
> >>
>
