FLASHVARS visible in Firefox but not in IE

[harryusa]

Greetings all:
I'm using an off the shelf uploader called MultipowUpload (see http://www.element-it.com/MultiPowUpload.aspx) a nice Flash FTP uploader. I have used it for a few years but I only recently saw it using Firefox 3.03 and I see the Flashvars in the browser. If you use FF check it out:
http://www.digitalphotoonline.com/upload/cameraoneonline1224430078/upload.html

<!-- Replace symbols " with the " at all parameters values and 
        symbols "&" with the "%26" at URL values or &amp; at other values!
        The same parameters values should be set for EMBED object below. 
&progressMainText=<PERCENT>% Uploaded (<FILESNUM> files)<PART2DIV><BR>Transfer rate: <RATEVALUE>/sec<BR>Time left: <LEFTMIN> min <LEFTSEC> sec
&progressUploadCompleteText=Upload complete
 
&progressUploadingText=Uploading...
&progressUploadCanceledText=Next files upload canceled. Wait...
-->
 

You see the first &progressMainText=<PERCENT> does not show, but everything there after does. The uploader still works but I just don't know how to escape these variables.
Thanks for taking the time!

[pbmods]

Heya, Harry.

Try using urlencode() to encode illegal characters (http://php.net/urlencode).

If that doesn't work, consider using str_replace() to replace only the characters that you need (http://php.net/str_replace).

[harryusa]

Quick and dirty possibly but I simply used <! on the first line and it killed all the other misinterpreted & signs.I think the problem was that particular line has some HTML brackets in it < > and the browser didn't know when to stop sending characters to the screen. If anyone has the right answer please let me know.

<! &progressMainText=<PERCENT><! % Uploaded (<FILESNUM><!  files)<PART2DIV><BR><! Transfer rate: <RATEVALUE><! /sec<BR><! Time left: <LEFTMIN><!  min <LEFTSEC> <! sec 
&progressUploadCompleteText=Upload complete &progressUploadingText=Uploading...