Re: passing multiple variables in a url

Does this not work... <a href=contactus.php?email=director&subject=job enquiry> On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 14:11, CJ wrote: > I have a "contact us" php script on my site that allows users to email > direct from the webiste. I want to be able to pass the to address and > subject line to the script so I can call teh web page from elsewhere on the > site and have it automatically choose the correct email address and subject > line. > > EG instad of using <a href=mailto:joe@bloggs.mail.com> > which requires them > to have an email client set up on the machine I want to link to > <a href=contactus.php?email=director subject=job enquiry> > The script already handles the email=director by setting a default entry in > a drop down form but I can't get it to separate the first and second > variables in the URL. > > Also is this a big security risk as I will be echoing the 2nd variable as > the contents of a form field. Would it be possible for someone to type in > the URL with HTML/php in it that would make a mess of everything? How can I > protect against this? Would it be sufficient to just pase the 2nd variable > for non alphabetic characters and remove them? -- .: B i g D o g :.