Re: Help with '&' character

--- Chris Bruce <chris@idextrus.com> wrote: > I am having trouble with a string becoming truncated at an '&' > character. I am passing the variable via a link > > (http://...&campaign=MBI%20List%20-%20Steel%20&%20Concrete) and then > when I try to grab the incoming value of campaign into a SELECT query, > it becomes > > SELECT sum(sends) from campaigns where name='MBI List - Steel ' > > I have tried to urlencode the variable, and also use htmlentities, etc. > to no avail. > > Does anyone have a solution for this? You already mentioned it: URL encoding. http://www.php.net/urlencode There are a lot of user notes on that page. Some of those might also be helpful. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly Coming mid-2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams http://httphandbook.org/ PHP Community Site http://phpcommunity.org/