help passing string with spaces

Here's some code to print some data from MySQL into a table data cell. The idea is you click on the link to see the entire row: printf ("<a href=\"show_more.php?d_title=%s\">%s</a></td>", ($val), ($val)); And here's the code from show_more.php that's supposed to bring up the entire row : $my_query = "SELECT * FROM driver WHERE driver_title = '$d_title'"; This all works fine when the data is a short string like Major. But the page containing the SQL query doesn't see the whole string $d_title when the string is Major Tom. It doesn't like the empty chars. However, in the URL area of the browser window, the entire string is visible, and of course it's visible in the table. We're using PHP4 with magic_quotes_gpc = on. Tried addslashes, stripslashes, urlencode, etc. How can the entire string be passed to the next page and then used successfully in a SQL query? Thank you. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/