Re: OT? passing text variables through html forms.

on 6/29/00 4:56 PM, Teodor Cimpoesu at teo@digiro.net wrote: > Hi Travis! > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Travis Ruthenburg wrote: > >> >> <? >> $var = "This is 'a' test"; >> <input type='hidden' name='name' value='$var'> >> ?> > try > <input type='hidden' name='name' > value='<?=rawurlencode($var)?>'> > or > <? echo "<input type='hidden' name='name' value='" . > rawurlencode($var)."'>"; > ?> > so on > AFAIK ' and " are not allowed in urls, so they will be translated and I expect > PHP to decode it as any url-encoded content, or you may call rawurldecode() on > the other end. This is true that spaces aren't allowed, but the form is automatically urlencoded when submitted, so that won't be the problem nor the solution. -k