& character in get

[waynew]

Hey guys. I have an & character in the name of a company that I'm sending via a GET link. However, when this is brought to the new page, the company name is split in half. This means that when my database is using the company name to find details about it, nothing is showing up. I'm also having problems with a + character. All of these company names come from the same db.

 

Any help would be great.

[abdfahim]

you have to urlencode() the company name. For example

 

$company_name="c&e";
$company_name=urlencode($company_name); //you have to include this line
echo "<a href='?c=".$company_name."'>Link</a>";