value with & not being sent correctly by querystring 1

[vasox56]

im having trouble sending a value to another page using querystring..

the value is:

Elephant & Castle

when i load this value from my database and display it on my first page, it displays correctly using the following:

<%= rs("placeNAME")%>

i try to send that string to another page as Postcode using this script

<form action="online-booking1.asp?Price=<%=sTempVar & "163;" & trim(rs("salPRICE"))%>&amp;Postcode=<%= rs("placeNAME")%>&amp;FCar=Saloon" method="post">

on my second page i receive the value like so:

zpostcode = Request.QueryString("Postcode")

and display the value using

<%=(zpostcode)%>

the problem is.. Elephant & Castle is only displaying as Elephant on the new page

can anyone see why it is cutting off the rest of the string.

thanks

 

[cLFlaVA]

you will need to encode the string properly, because the ampersand marks a connection between querystring parameters.

however you're setting your variable, you'll first need to encode it properly.



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[vasox56]

how do you do that

i know that % can sometimes be used as a space.. or something like that

not sure though

 

[cLFlaVA]

the replacement for & is [tt]&[/tt].

some languages have encoding functions you should look into. JavaScript has the urlencode/urldecode functions, ASP has similar.



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[MarkZK]

>i know that % can sometimes be used as a space.. or something like that

that's escape "%20" = (space) "%26"=&

 

[vasox56]

ok.. i realise that i will need to encode the variable before it gets sent so the value remains consistent.

i presume it will be in this part..

<form action="online-booking1.asp?Price=<%=sTempVar & "163;" & trim(rs("salPRICE"))%>[b]&amp;Postcode=<%= rs("placeNAME")%>[/b]&amp;FCar=Saloon" method="post">

the string seems to display correctly as
<%= rs("placeNAME")%>

but are you telling me that before that is sent.. i have to include something that tells it to watch out for & characters

i dont know how to do that.

 

[vasox56]

i have just realised that the second page may not be receiving the string properly..

if this is the case.. what can i add to this statement to grab everything..

zpostcode = Request.QueryString("Postcode")

 

[MarkZK]

the asp forum would be a better place to ask about request.form/request.querystring questions.

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=333

 

[feherke]

Hi

the replacement for & is &amp;.

That is HTML character entity. To send an ampersand ( & ) in the URL you have to URLEncode it : [tt]Elephant+%26+Castle[/tt] or [tt]Elephant%20%26%20Castle[/tt].

Feherke.

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[1DMF]

feherke is correct,

SPACE %20
# %23
$ %24
% %25
& %26
/ %2F
: %3A
; %3B
< %3C
= %3D
> %3E
? %3F
@ %40
[ %5B
\ %5C
] %5D
^ %5E
` %60
{ %7B
| %7C
} %7D
~ %7E



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[cLFlaVA]

true, which i also mentioned above.

JavaScript has the urlencode/urldecode functions, ASP has similar.

some people need things spelled out for them i guess.



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[feherke]

Hi

That is correct cLFlaVA, and your previous post was also correct. But the line I quoted could be abit confusing for a beginner...

Feherke.

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