Re: '&' Sign in _GET Parameter

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 12:05, Pushpinder Singh Garcha wrote: > Hello All, > > I am using an application where I retrieve user profile from a MySQL > DB using the Company Name . I pass the name of the company to the PHP > script as a '$_GET' parameter. e.g. when the name of the company is > 'IBM'. , the URL with the query string would look like : > http://masterstream.com/CRM/full_profile_1.php?name=IBM > > Now one of the records had a name : PSG & Inc. , in this case the URL > with the query string would look like > > http://masterstream.com/CRM/full_profile_1.php?name=PSG%20&%20Inc no, this is not how it should look... the '&' in the above query string is saying the variable 'name' ends and a new variable follows. If you are submitting this in a form using method=get... it should look something like: ?name=PSG+%26+Inc if you are really passing this in a form using method=get, then this should be handled automatically. how are you accessing the passed variable? $_GET['name'] ??