Help - ineturl.exe plugin returning extra chars

rob_v2

Im using the ineturl.exe plugin to hit a page to look up an order - then return the order total.

The odd thing is that when I hit the url - it send back 3 control chars then the var - here is the log :

Run plugin: "C:\Program Files\NCH Swift Sound\IVM\plug_ins\ineturl.exe" http://127.0.0.1/rob/cart_id_total.php?cart_id=565

00:29 Play file: C:\ProgramData\NCH Swift Sound\IVM\OGMs\Retrieve cart id balance.wav

00:29 followed by read number: total

00:30 Plugin returned: ï»¿total=123.99

00:30 Plugin returned so skip to end

Its getting back the correct amount - but because of the ï»¿ before the actual variable name its not "seeing" it and is just saying 0 dollars.

If I make the actual varialbe name in IVM %ï»¿total% it then sees and says it fine.

I even tried hitting the script as straight html just puting out total=12399 - on 2 different servers both with the same results.

Any help at all - Im using ivm 4.03

Thanks

-Rob

pythonpoole

Well I don't know if this will help, but if the PHP server is on the same computer as Axon (as it appears) then there is no need to use the internet plug-in or to even have a php webserver.

You can execute the PHP script by setting IVM to run a C:\Program Files\PHP\php.exe as an IVM Plugin Process. For the first argument, put in the path to the php script (e.g. "C:\Program Files\PHP\myscript.php"). The rest of the arguments are for the data you want to send to the script (eg 565)

In the PHP script, instead of using something like:

$cart_id = $_GET["cart_id"];

Use:

$cart_id = $argv[1];

Hope this helps and saves you some trouble. I haven't had any unwanted extra characters return using this method so I'm assuming it's something related to the ineturl plugin you are using.

rob_v2

For testing it is on the same box - but when we go live it will be on a different box - so I need to use the actual plugin.