A quite interesting question I guess...

[Sleidia]

Hello.

I got a problem I'm surprized nobody is talking about:

When doing this:
<a href=\&quot;show_only.php?a=$brand_name&b=$product&c=$price\&quot; target=\&quot;_top\&quot;>link</a>

What if there is an & (&amp in the records.
(such as the data Smith&Smith in $brand_name for example).

Thanks a lot.

 

[rycamor]

Obviously, if you have non alph-numberic characters in your URL string, you can interfere with the transmission of data. This is the reason for urlencoding.

If you are using PHP, it's quite simple: just use the built in urlencode($variable) function, which will tranlate any offending characrters into the URL-transmittable character codes. PHP automaticaly decodes these variables in the receiving script. See

http://php.net/urlencode

If you are using Perl, or ASP, or any other web programming language, each has modules or routines to accomplish this.

 

[Sleidia]

Thanks a lot for your help, Ry.