Adding to remote DB

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I'm trying to add data to a remote MySQL database and it works perfect until I add a SPACE to my text fill in order to write the second word. Can someone help me out with this? Here's the code

- (IBAction)add:(id)sender {
    NSString *strURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://pruebapestana.comoj.com/juancho4.php?name=%@&last=%@&age=%@",_name.text, _last.text, _age.text];

You don't add data to a remote DB from Xcode. You can do so from your iOS app or OS X program, but not Xcode. — rmaddy
– rmaddy, Commented Jun 29, 2013 at 22:55

rmaddy · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-29 22:59:01Z

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Spaces are not valid characters in a URL. You need to properly escape them so they become %20. The best way to do this is to use the NSString method stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:.

NSString *strURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://pruebapestana.comoj.com/juancho4.php?name=%@&last=%@&age=%@",
    [_name.text stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding], 
    [_last.text stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding], 
    [_age.text stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

This will properly escape any other special values in addition to the spaces.

answered Jun 29, 2013 at 22:59

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