convore.json/groups/convore-api-developers/how-to-encode-text-in-api-calls/messages.json

[{"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299108093.615027, "message": "Question: I am using urlencode() in PHP to escape my text so that things like & don't mess up but when I post a topic using urlencode()ed text, it never gets decoded properly and the topics have escape strings instead of special characters.  What am I doing wrong? :-)", "group_id": 2780, "id": 254488}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299187449.400871, "message": "Well the WordPress plugin is done (at least version 1.) but unfortunately I'm still having this text escape problem.  Can't figure it out - I've tried printing the value I'm sending to the screen and it does not appear to be double encoded.  The API that I'm using is https://convore.com/api/groups/:group_id/topics/create.json\n\nNot really sure what to do about this.  I guess I can write a function that converts \"&\" characters to the word \"ampersand\" but that does not seem ideal :-)", "group_id": 2780, "id": 263830}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299198450.7856901, "message": "*sigh* OK yeah it's not a problem with Convore.  PHP is being horrible and I don't know why.  But I'll figure it out eventually.", "group_id": 2780, "id": 265237}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299198534.9930601, "message": "That's good to hear, I really wasn't sure what it could be on our end", "group_id": 2780, "id": 265242}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299210828.4027591, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299204993.4127009, "message": "@ericflo Yeah it turns out that I was staring at the screen for too long and I thought I was looking at plaintext in my browser but I was actually looking at HTML.  Not the same thing at all.  All better now.  Can't believe how much time I wasted when all I needed to do was view source in my browser.  *sigh*", "group_id": 2780, "id": 265868}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299223282.653939, "message": "I guess I could also make a dummy account for testing but that just seems kind of...blah", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267426}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299223922.8215179, "user_id": 16271}], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299223917.2732439, "message": "Whoa, that's awesome @mridley!", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267497}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299224015.1615019, "message": "Yeah, that makes sense", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267509}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299224099.229723, "message": "Also I'd like to make it so that the comments and Convore discussion can coexist - right now it's either/or on a per-post basis.  I suspect if I put my mind to it, I can figure out a way.  But I might leave that for version 2 (or for someone else to implement)", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267521}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299224281.656177, "message": "Also not sure the best way to handle large amounts of traffic in the topic.  I do have an option where you can specify the size of the div and it has overflow: scroll but that's not super pretty to have a scrolling div in the middle of someone's web site.  The way it's implemented on this site is good but I don't think that will work for a WordPress plugin as it would require the rest of the theme to have css fixed positioning which is unrealistic.", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267547}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299223589.3896279, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299223511.8025429, "message": "@ericflo Thanks - I see that I do indeed have a bug with the count of members online.  Give me just a moment to fix that and then I'll let you know and you can drop it if you want", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267454}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299223864.7194951, "message": "uh last comment should be @ericflo", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267490}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299223869.6676121, "message": "also thanks for your help :)", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267491}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299223953.9765339, "message": "@ericflo Glad you like - I should probably have it actually link to the group in the description.  But the idea is that each post will be automatically associated with a topic (as you saw earlier in the screenshots I uploaded)", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267501}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299224152.2343869, "message": "And other little things like having it show the number of messages in the Convore topic a la comment count.  But..again...might leave little things like that for a future revision", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267529}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299223211.691808, "message": "@ericflo I would pm you but there is no way to do that - at your convenience would you mind joining my \"Michaels Thoughts\" group - I just want to test whether my widget that shows online users works or not.  But it's hard since I'm the only one in the group :)", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267418}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299223852.8074851, "message": "@mridley Fixed the bug - you can drop the group if you want.  It might be a little spammy as I'm still testing - everything working but the AJAX integration for some reason (works on my dev site but not on the production one - will have to figure that out tomorrow).  If you want to see what you helped test, check out the left panel at http://www.michaelridley.info/", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267489}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299223457.7906809, "message": "Joined!", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267449}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299224050.2735269, "message": "Yeah once I get the AJAX fixed I'll upload it to the wordpress plugins site.  Hopefully this weekend.  Although I have actual work I have to do this weekend too so we'll see.", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267514}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299223441.9934011, "message": "@mridley Sure", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267447}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299224163.404355, "message": "Makes sense", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267533}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299224539.6514101, "message": "Yeah, I think overflow: scroll is an unfortunate but necessary way of implementing it", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267569}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 10300, "date_created": 1299224599.1411271, "message": "@ericflo Yeah - it will have to do for version 1.0", "group_id": 2780, "id": 267573}]