Using <A NAME> between pages 1

[hpicken]

Hi

I'm using the following to get to another indexed page.
The page generates the <a name=&quot;blah&quot;> when created.

echo &quot;<a href=\&quot;../convicts.php?currltr=$conltr#$convict\&quot;>Click here.</a>&quot;;

This has been working fine, but I thought I'd change the code and auto redirect using the Header tag eg.

$URL=&quot;../convicts.php?currltr=$conltr#$convict&quot;;
header (&quot;Location: $URL&quot;

This sends the user to the correct page but doesn't accept the #$convict because it is automatically rawurlencoded.
eg convicts.php?A#O\'Neill%20Tim

If I change the indexed page to use a rawurlencoded <a name> it works OK until I get to a hyphened name eg O'Neill.

The passed variable becomes O\'Neill. I can't seem to find a way of either stripping this or adding it the indexed page. This script handles the %20 (space) OK just not the appostrophy.

Anyone have any ideas?


Howard

 

[hpicken]

OOPs that should be eg convicts.php?currltr=A#O\'Neill%20Tim

Howard

 

[LittleHavoc]

$URL=urlencode(&quot;../convicts.php?currltr=$conltr#$convict&quot;
header (&quot;Location: $URL&quot;

 

[LittleHavoc]

Change that to the following because of the / characters being encoded too

$URL=&quot;../convicts.php?currltr=$conltr#&quot; . urlencode($convict);
header (&quot;Location: $URL&quot;

 

[hpicken]

That changes the the passed var to
/convicts.php?currltr=O#O%5C%27NEILL+Tim

Ended up using

$URL=&quot;../convicts.php?currltr=$conltr#&quot; . urlencode(stripslashes($convict));

this worked.

Cheers and thanks LittleHavoc