URL GET data problem

[The Plankmeister]

Hi...

I have the following chunk of html output by my PHP script:
<select id="show_page" name="show_page">
<option value="3&year=2002&month=10">October 2002</option>
<option value="3&year=2003&month=10">October 2003</option>
<option value="3&year=2003&month=11">November 2003</option>
<option value="3&year=2003&month=12">December 2003</option>
</select>

But when I select one of these from the list and click submit, instead of
appearing like this in the address bar:

http://www.mysite.com/main.php?show_...=2002&month=10

It appears like this instead:

http://www.mysite.com/main.php?show_...3%26month%3D10

You can see the & and = characters have been substituted for the URL-safe
equivalents. I'm sure it's PHP doing this, as I have a 99% identical page in
ASP which works fine. Is there an option I can switch to stop it
translating?

TIA,

Plankmeister

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID:
<3f*********************@dread11.news.tele.dk> from The Plankmeister
contained the following:

http://www.mysite.com/main.php?show_...3%26month%3D10

You can see the & and = characters have been substituted for the URL-safe
equivalents. I'm sure it's PHP doing this, as I have a 99% identical page in
ASP which works fine. Is there an option I can switch to stop it
translating?

Using a simple ampersand is not valid. Try:

<option value="3&amp;year=2002&amp;month=10">October 2002</option>
etc...
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[Andy Hassall]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:07:35 +0100, "The Plankmeister"
<pl******************@hotmail.com> wrote:

I have the following chunk of html output by my PHP script:

<select id="show_page" name="show_page">
<option value="3&year=2002&month=10">October 2002</option>
<option value="3&year=2003&month=10">October 2003</option>
<option value="3&year=2003&month=11">November 2003</option>
<option value="3&year=2003&month=12">December 2003</option>
</select>

But when I select one of these from the list and click submit, instead of
appearing like this in the address bar:

http://www.mysite.com/main.php?show_...=2002&month=10

It appears like this instead:

http://www.mysite.com/main.php?show_...3%26month%3D10

You can see the & and = characters have been substituted for the URL-safe
equivalents. I'm sure it's PHP doing this, as I have a 99% identical page in
ASP which works fine. Is there an option I can switch to stop it
translating?

Sounds more like it's the browser (correctly) doing it. You're breaking the
HTML 4.0 standard in your code having a bare & for starters, but anyway the
main issue is that the browser is reacting correctly: in order to get that
value passed for that option, it must be URL encoded.

You can't cause a single option to set multiple values by abusing the value
attribute to try and form a URL like that and expect it to work. If it does,
it's a bug (almost certainly in the browser - I don't see where PHP or ASP
comes into it since it's simply going from the output HTML to the next page;
the server's not involved until it receives the GET request).

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