forward variable info via header()

Hello folks, I'm a PHP newbie trying to figure one last piece of a project that I've been working on this summer. I'm trying to use php to forward information collected from previous pages to a new page by way of a .php file using the header function like this: Header("Location: newpage.html"); but, I have a lot of info I'd like to pass along with it. So, I'm trying to build this info into a variable like this: $info = "branch_cd=", urlencode($branch_cd), "&name=", urlencode($name) ... ; etc. (the information in $branch_cd and $name is from the previous page). so that I can do this: Header ("Location: newpage.html?$info"); But when I try to add the field names as text and the urlencoded php variable information into the $info variable I get a parse error. Basically, all I'm trying to do is forward the information collected in the php variables from the previous page via the header function. Does anyone happen to know how to do this? I've also tried just building the url directly into header() like this: Header("Location: newpage.html?branch_cd=", urlencode($branch_cd), "&name=", urlencode($name)); But that doesn't work either. The url ends up only sending what's in the first set of double quotes. It shows like this: http://www.company.com/newpage.html?branch_cd= and that's it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, PS. The reason I'm using Header(); is because I have the php file making a decision as to which page to go to.