if space in url do 301 redirect

[skyline]

Hi all,

I have discovered that Google has indexed 2 urls for same page, one with a dash and one with a space (contains %20 in url in listings).

I need to do a 301 redirect within the php page to detect if the space version has been used and go to the correct dashed version.

I have tried to find the space, but its not finding it and redirecting:

//array of possible space characters to search for
$space_array = array(" ","%20","\s");

// get page name
$name = clean($_GET['name']);
// replace dash for content purposes
$name2 = str_replace("-"," ",$name);
// replace spaces with dash for 301 
$name3 = str_replace($space_array,"-",$name);

//if we find a space in url then do 301 to actual dashed page
if ( stristr($space_array,$name)  ){
    header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
    header("Location: http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/$name3-page.html");
    die();
} 

Any ideas?

[Shrapnel_N5]

I bet some debugging would help.
Do you have an idea of debugging?
even simple var_dump()-ing used variables will show the traitor.

add this code above condition:

$found=stristr($space_array,$name);
var_dump($found,$name,$name2,$name3);
die(); 

and see what it say

also reduce $space_array to just " " string. other two members are useless

[skyline]

its saying false, but yet the printed variable has a space in it! I've ditched the space_array now and just using " ".

[Shrapnel_N5]

oh sure. what a dumb I am!
stristr just doesn't support arrays

you have to swap params too
reading manual before using a function would help for sure

[skyline]

but still not working though...does stristr not find empty space written as " ".

[Shrapnel_N5]

I've edited my post.
read manual entry for stristr carefully and arrange params in the right way

[skyline]

damn i tried other way around, but when using space array!! working now cheers