note 63168 added to function.echo

While playing with php I found a strange thing. It can't be considered a bug but you must think of it if you need a script that will output to the users browser an URL formatted string (eg: http ://example.com/index.php?var=value&var2=value2 ) My script was dealing with some products and it's output had the following syntax: http ://xxxxxxx/?name=$name&prod=$prod While trying to view the output in the browser to see if it worked, I noticed a strange character. It was the Product character (the Capital PI) because the browser rendered &prod as the product character code. This ain't a problem for me since the output will be read by another program and not by a browser, but for someone that deals with this kind of things they might want to use some unique identifiers that will exculde the posibility of a "missunderstanding" from the browser side ---- Server IP: 193.226.19.70 Probable Submitter: 193.231.34.9 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/63168 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63168/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63168/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63168/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63168/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63168/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63168/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63168 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/63168 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php