Strings with Spaces in URLS

I have come up with a bit of a problem.... I have a little funky search form on a page, and when I send the search data on as a URL, anything with a space is screwed up.... example

        $search = "This is a test";
        echo "<a href=http://www.blah.com/foo.php?search=$search>";

and when the link is clicked (or even when the mouse is put over the link), the URL in the browser is -

        http://www.blah.com/foo.php?search=This

leaving out all words after the first space. If I simply throw the while thing using the following header statement

        header("Location: http://www.blah.com/foo.php?search=$search");

then it brings it up properly in the browser. Any suggestions ? Cheers Chris --

    Chris Aitken - Administration/Database Designer - IDEAL Internet

email: chris@ideal.net.au phone: +61 2 4628 8888 fax: +61 2 4628 8890

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