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Easy PHP question

Im trying to send a variable via GET to a php script like so:

<a href="process.p hp?id=test & test">Link</a>

Leaving spaces is no problem, but the & symbol (ampersand) cannot be
displayed to the screen. I want it to show "test & test". Instead it
displays just "test" without the rest following it.

Can anyone tell me how to display the whole variable passed to
process.php?

TIA
Rob
Jul 16 '05 #1
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On 12 Sep 2003 17:01:24 -0700, go****@si.rr.co m (Robert) wrote:
Im trying to send a variable via GET to a php script like so:

<a href="process.p hp?id=test & test">Link</a>

Leaving spaces is no problem, but the & symbol (ampersand) cannot be
displayed to the screen. I want it to show "test & test". Instead it
displays just "test" without the rest following it.
In a URL, & is one of the separator characters (; being the other); so you
have urlencode it for it to be part of a value within a URL.

<a href="process.p hp?id=<?php echo urlencode('test & test')?>">Link</a>

It'll come out as:

<a href="process.p hp?id=test+%26+ test">Link</a>
Can anyone tell me how to display the whole variable passed to
process.php?


And then & is special in HTML. You must encode it as &amp; in any output.

echo htmlspecialchar s($_GET['id']);

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