handling special characters in PHP

[dub_stylee]

Hello, I am running into another small (but hopefully simple) problem.  I am querying my database by album name; everything works fine except for when I encounter album names such as "Kill 'Em All" or "S&M".  I am passing the album name to a PHP script via:

 

/processalbum.php?album_name=S&M

I have also tried:

 

/processalbum.php?album_name=S&M

 

but this doesn't seem to work either.  I have a similar problem with "Kill 'Em All" because it cuts off the album name at the apostrophe.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this situation?  Thanks in advance,

 

Brian

[corbin]

http://php.net/urlencode should do it.

[darkfreaks]

<?php

$replace=preg_replace("&","&",$replace);

?>

[corbin]

<?php

$replace=preg_replace("&","&",$replace);

?>

 

 

When would he ever use that?

 

 

In a URL, & is no more valid than ?var1=val&something; would be.  & is a reserved character, straight up.  %26 is used for & in a URL because 26 is the decimal representation of the ASCII-number value of &.

[dub_stylee]

Thanks corbin!  urlencode() did the trick.  Everything is working perfectly now.

 

Brian

[corbin]

No prob.

 

 

Edit:  By the way, in case you look into it later or something, when I said decimal representation earlier, I should have said hexidecimal.