Re[2]: [PHP] explode

I figured out how to do it. Buy the way I am not the one passing the variables like this this is how it is sent from a credit card company when they send the customer back to my page. I am just trying to capture that data so the customer does not have to put it in twice nicole> if you need to pass special characters (eg. +) in the url, you need to nicole> use a url encoding function like rawurlencode().. or choose another nicole> delimeter which can be passed in the url like these -_. nicole> s nicole> Richard Kurth wrote: >> >> Question about explode >> >> this work just perfect >> $name="what+ever"; >> >> $name1=explode("+",$name); >> $fname=$name1[0] ; this has what >> $lname=$name1[0] ; this has ever >> >> But if I pass the info from another page like this >> >> <a href="whatever.php?name=what+ever">test</a> >> >> $name1=explode("+",$name); >> $fname=$name1[0] ; this has what ever >> $lname=$name1[0] ; this has nothing in it >> >> $fname has both names in it >> >> How come I get this it does not make since >> >> Best regards, >> Richard >> mailto:rkurth@pacifier.com >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >> For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >> To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Best regards, Richard mailto:rkurth@pacifier.com