Apostrophe screwing up the Link

[Nina2001]

Hi. I have a php page that searches and displays songs from a song database.

http://www.pianomandj.com/songsearch.php

The categories of "70's" and "80's" are the only ones I get a page result problem so I'm thinking it must have something to do with the apostrophe. This is the first result page which placed a %27 in the link instead of the '.

http://www.pianomandj.com/songsearc...=70's&sort_order=songtitle&name2=Find+my+song

From this page if you do the next page link button the link starts getting slashes in it. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?

Example of the link after hitting the next button twice.

http://www.pianomandj.com/songsearc...artist=&category=70\\\'s&sort_order=songtitle

 

[nawlej]

Try to wrap the url into htmlentities() or urlencode(). URL entities werent meant to have apostrophies in them, and it is trying to convert them as a result of that. Of course if you really want to make it easy on yourself, dont create anything with apostrophies. To bring it back out of the encode level, take your get variables inside of the script you pass it to and run them inside of the urldecode() function.

 

[Nina2001]

I finally got it. This was all I needed.

$category_search=stripslashes($category);

After an hour of attempts....what a pain.