Whats needed for recording

[zehd]

OK, while sub thinks about how to explain what is the difference in weekly and daily recordings.... I'll ask another question, totally off topic.

When I send this URL...

http://thetvdb.com/interfaces/GetSeries.php?seriesname={ strSeriesName }

and I fill in the string variable with a show like "Star Trek" I get a hit.

I just learnt that ampersands cause trouble...

Can't do Law & Order, or Law & Order. Anyone know what would be the trick?

[psycik]

Don't you normally encode it, or encode the url before sending it?? Which sorts all that stuff out.

So instead of calling webclient.geturl(http://thetvdb.com/interfaces/GetSeries.php?seriesname={ strSeriesName }
)

there's the uri object which I think would sort that stuff out. I don't do a lot of web stuff.

[sub]

OK, while sub thinks about how to explain what is the difference in weekly and daily recordings....

From memory the day mask is in the REOCCURING_EXTRAS table.

[zehd]

Don't you normally encode it, or encode the url before sending it?? Which sorts all that stuff out.

So instead of calling webclient.geturl(http://thetvdb.com/interfaces/GetSeries.php?seriesname={ strSeriesName }
)

there's the uri object which I think would sort that stuff out. I don't do a lot of web stuff.

No. at least how I do it, is send the URL to the HTML object in VB6. There's a verianle placed at the end. (My sample had some syntax removed for simplicity)

Bascially, if you type the URL manually in the browser, and try

http://thetvdb.com/interfaces/GetSeries....name={Star Trek}
it resolves. But
http://thetvdb.com/interfaces/GetSeries....sname={Law & Order} does not. Trying escaped forms of the amp doesn't work either. Just wondered if others have come across this...

[zehd]

No. at least how I do it, is send the URL to the HTML object in VB6. There's a verianle placed at the end. (My sample had some syntax removed for simplicity)

Bascially, if you type the URL manually in the browser, and try

http://thetvdb.com/interfaces/GetSeries....name={Star Trek}
it resolves. But
http://thetvdb.com/interfaces/GetSeries....sname={Law & Order} does not. Trying escaped forms of the amp doesn't work either. Just wondered if others have come across this...

Interesting that replacing the & with 'and' works...