Using get with special characters

[gouletpo]

Hello everyone and thank you for taking the time to read this.

I am fairly new to php and I have a problem I haven't been able to solve. For my web site, I have to send two variables to browse.php. When I build the 'a' tag, I do it like this :

$out = '<a href="browse.php?path=' . $path . '&image=' . $image . '">';

In browse.php, I get the values using :

$path = $_GET["path"];

and

$image = $_GET["image"];

Now, in most cases, this works just fine. But when $path contains an ampersand (&), it doesn't work anymore because it thinks it's a separator. Is there anyway for me to make this work ?

Thanks again.

[gouletpo]

anybody ?

is it even possible ?

[Gaz]

dude,
try and use the urlencode function to pass the value.

eg:
$out = '<a href="browse.php?path=' . $path . '&image=' . urlencode($image) . '">';