Post weird characters to a PHP script?

I have an iPhone app where my data is posted to a PHP file on a server via GET. However, after executing with weird characters, there is no server response. (I put a NSLog on what I get returned from the server).

Here's how I post my data to the server:

// St uploading to server
        NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://myflashpics.com/iphone_processes/upload.php?album=%@&id=%@&caption=%@&orient=%@&size=%d&device=iPhone",getAlbumID,theUserID,theCaption,getOrientation,imageSize];

        NSLog(@"Calling URL: %@", urlString);

        NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
        [request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]];
        [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];

        NSString *boundary = [NSString stringWithString:@"---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449"];
        NSString *contentType = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"multipart/form-data; boundary=%@", boundary];
        [request addValue:contentType forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

        NSMutableData *body = [NSMutableData data];
        [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n", boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
        [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"userfile\"; filename=\".jpg\"\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
        [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"Content-Type: binary\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
        [body appendData:[NSData dataWithData:imageData]];
        [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@--\r\n", boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
        [request setHTTPBody:body];

And here's how I process 开发者_C百科server-side:

<?php

// Connect to MYSQL

$name = $_GET['name'];

mysql_query("INSERT INTO *** (name) VALUES ('$name')");

I really would like to fix this server-side if all possible. I submitted to apple and I am hoping ti fix without resubmitting it.

Please please please help! Thanks

Coulton

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First off, if your action is creating a record, you should be doing a POST, not a GET.

Secondly, stop using the mysql_* functions and use PDO, with Parameterized queries.

If you're still having issues, use the php error_log() function in combination with var_export($var, true) to write out log messages to identify what PHP is retrieving.

That, combined with any errors/exceptions that are generated by PDO should give you an indication of where the problem is.

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If you are using $_GET you should be url encoding your variables before sending them.

Anyways, you should be doing two things:

• escaping your request variables (GET or POST) with functions such as mysql_escape_string (http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php) before inserting it into the database
• encoding your variables for weird characters to numeric unicode characters (I beleive that is the correct term) using mb_convert_encoding($variable, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'); before storing them in the database

Hope that helps.