I'm calling $keywords from advanced search but...

[lostndazed]

I need the spaces between the words in the string called $keywords to include the characters %20.

How is this done?

 

I appreciate your response.

[lostndazed]

I'm hoping there is a function for this somewhere in osCommerce so I don't have to write 50 lines of code to handle this string. :'(

[lostndazed]

ok, I'm muddling through this, but am still having a problem with my code. Now it's not showing the string parts in the link to Amazon.

 

In case I hadn't mentioned this before, I'm trying to set up my search result so that if I don't have any products to display, the page will display Amazon's products using the customer's search terms and my affiliate id. There doesn't appear to be a contribution for this feature (yet!).

 

This is what I have so far:

 

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$search_string = $keywords;

$findme = ' '; //looking for empty space

$pos = strpos($search_string, $findme);

 

// Note our use of ===. Simply == would not work as expected

// because the position of first character is 0.

 

if ($pos === false) {

 

// so just go with the $mystring

$list_box_contents = array();

$list_box_contents[0] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-odd"');

$list_box_contents[0][] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-data"',

'text' => TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS . '<br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=$myAmazonID&o=1&p=12&l=st1&mode=music&search=' . $search_string . '&=1&fc1=&lt1=&lc1=&bg1=&f=ifr" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="300" height="250" border="0" frameborder="0" style="border:none;" scrolling="no"></iframe>');

 

} else {

//The string '$findme' was found in the string '$search_string' and exists at position $pos

//Bolded is where I'm having problems.

 

function str_split_index($search_string, $pos) {

$string = (string) $search_string;

$pos = (int) $pos;

 

$prefix = substr($string, 0, $pos);

$suffix = substr($string, $pos);

 

return array($prefix, $suffix);

 

}

 

$list_box_contents = array();

 

$list_box_contents[0] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-odd"');

$list_box_contents[0][] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-data"',

'text' => TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS . '<br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=$myAmazonID&o=1&p=12&l=st1&mode=music&search=' . $prefix . '%20'. $suffix . '&=1&fc1=&lt1=&lc1=&bg1=&f=ifr" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="300" height="250" border="0" frameborder="0" style="border:none;" scrolling="no"></iframe>');

}

 

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I'm also kind of concerned that even if I get this to work when someone types in two words, will it work when someone types in more than two words?

[lostndazed]

Oh shoot! I'm probably doing this all wrong. I just found the explode method of string handling.

 

****tears out the little remaining hair left on my head***

 

I'll come back to this tomorrow morning. Maybe by then someone here will take pity on me. I sure could use some help.

 

*sigh*

Good night all.

[lostndazed]

Ok, just for an update:

 

I've solved the issue. It turned out to need only two lines of code.

[Guest]

Justme,

 

I am so sorry you went through all that alone. I wish I had the knowledge to have offered you some help.

 

Would you be willing to disclose the code you used ... others might benefit from it.

 

Best of luck to you!