The %7 and similar are used in URL encoding to represent illegal characters
such as spaces and others - these are translated when the user clicks to
open the URL, giving the string you get back......... I think

Peter

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-----Original Message-----
From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 04 December 2002 22:07
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [PHP-DB] Special URL Verification String...


        I am trying to implement an approval system that sends an e-mail to
a user for approval linking them back to a special URL that matches database
entries for a verification string.  The verification string sent via the
e-mail does not match that in the database and I am looking for help in
figuring out why.  Here is what generates the verification string:

$verify_string = $sbcuid;
for ($i = 0 ; $i < 14; $i++) {
  $verify_string .= chr(mt_rand(32,126));
}

        Here is what this results in inside the database table:

        sn4265e~zD|W(XTMxO"+

        Here is what is sent in the e-mail:

        sn4265e%7EzD%7CW%28XTMxO%22%2B

        I know that I am doing something wrong here, but what.  Thanks in
advance.


Scott Nipp
Phone:  (214) 858-1289
E-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web:  http:\\ldsa.sbcld.sbc.com



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