Google App Engine with Telegram Bot API through PHP output no whitespace

[tanto259 via StackOverflow]

So, I configure my PHP script to send message from my contact form to my telegram chat with a bot.

Here's the PHP script code:

<?php
if(trim($_POST["gotcha"]) !== "") {
  header("Location: https://example.com/");
} else {
  if(isset($_POST["name"]) && isset($_POST["email"]) && isset($_POST["subject"]) && isset($_POST["content"])) {

    $wholeMessage = "Name:"." ".$_POST["name"]." "."|"." "."Email:"." ".$_POST["email"]." "."|"." "."Subject:"." ".$_POST["subject"]." "."|"." "."Message:"." ".$_POST["content"];
    $data = "https://api.telegram.org/bot<BOTID>/sendmessage?chat_id=<CHATID>&text=".$wholeMessage;

    $response = file_get_contents($data);

    header("Location: https://example.com/thanks/");
  } else {
    header("Location: https://example.com/");
  }
}
?>

The result on my Telegram chat:

Name:firstname|Email:ma...@mail.com|Subject:test|Message:testhttps://google.commouseappletest

Using %nbsp; only output:

Name:

with nothing else outputted.

As you can see, all the whitespace has disappeared. Is there something wrong with my code?

Thanks

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[Turtle via StackOverflow]

You need a URL Encode.

• Use %20 as whitespace.
• Or use urlencode() function to encode your url.

This can also rid your code of the danger of strange errors, especially when you are using a url containing Chinese or other special characters without url encode.

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