I have a very simple form that allows the user to search for a company name. One of the company names is "A+ Service". How can I build the form to encode the plus (+) sign prior to submitting the form, to allow for the user to input "A+" and find this company?
The form is submitting via POST.
A bit of background to help explain. Here's the code for the form itself:
<form action="/search_customer.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
id="search_form" onsubmit="return validateSearch(document.search_form);">
Search Customers:
<input id="search_text1" name="global_search_text" type="text" value="">
<input type="submit" name="global_search" id="global_search" value="Go">
</form>
When we submit this form with "a+" as the search term, the resulting SQL is:
SELECT * FROM tbl_customer
WHERE ( cus_fname LIKE '%a%' OR cus_lname LIKE '%a%');
My understanding is that we'll need to encode the value of the search string prior to submitting the form, but we're not clear on how to do this.
