destination URL not accepting a valid URL

[peters...@gmail.com]

Hiya, I am having trouble setting my destination URL to the following
URL:

http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=19622&a=1121816&g=1063207

When I pass this to the destination URL tag it does not correctly
create the ad.

$destinationUrl =
"<destinationUrl>http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=19622&a=1121816&g=1063207</destinationUrl>";

All my code is working and I can pass other URLs such as
http://google.com which works fine but for some reason I am having
bother with the above URL.

If anyone has any idea why this does not work then please get in touch.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Best wishes,
Peter

[Bartek Jakubski]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:05:18AM -0000, peters...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hiya, I am having trouble setting my destination URL to the following
> URL:
>
> http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=19622&a=1121816&g=1063207
>
> When I pass this to the destination URL tag it does not correctly
> create the ad.
>
> $destinationUrl =
> "<destinationUrl>http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=19622&a=1121816&g=1063207</destinationUrl>";
>
> All my code is working and I can pass other URLs such as
> http://google.com which works fine but for some reason I am having
> bother with the above URL.

It seems that you are manually constructing your XML - in the example
above you have unescaped '&' characters - do the get substituted by
entities later? If not maybe this is your problem? Do your other working
URLs also contain this character?


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[peter_stranney]

Thanks Bartek, you are right, the '&' symbol is causing the problem :)
I have tried but I am not quite sure how to tell php that it is not a
special character, should I do this when I am assigning the url to the
variable $tempurl and are there any php functions that will do this
automatically? I was looking at the php preg_quote function but I don't
this that is the correct one, it will only cater for the regular
expression characters.

Thanks again for your help,
Peter

[Craig Webster]

On 7 Nov 2005, at 14:03, peter_stranney wrote:
> I have tried but I am not quite sure how to tell php that it is not a
> special character, should I do this when I am assigning the url to the
> variable $tempurl and are there any php functions that will do this
> automatically?

http://php.net/htmlentities

Yours,
Craig
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[peter_stranney]

> http://php.net/htmlentities

Thanks Craig, that was exactly what I was looking for. I got it sorted
and it's now working perfectly.

Best wishes,
Peter