Re: [PHP] $_GET is Mangling Base64 value

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:57 PM, George Langley <[email protected]> wrote:

> xxxxx is a Japanese phrase, that has been encoded into Base64. So is using the + symbol:
>
> ...OODq+OCou...
>
> but my $_GET is replacing the + with a space:
>
> ...OODq OCou...
>
> thus the base64_decode() is failing (displays diamonds with questions marks on my Mac).

You could always pre-parse it with

$_GET['foo'] = str_replace(' ', '+', $_GET['foo']);

and inject them back in... I have had to do something like that in the
past because of the same issue (I either needed to add or remove the +
I forget)