[SOLVED] $_GET function question

[sciencebear]

In my website, I use the $_GET function on the user's profile pages. However, I recently encountered a problem. The page is set up like this:

 

http://domain.com/profile.php?username=user

 

$_GET['username'];

 

This works fine for most usernames, but there is a problem with users who have spaces in their names. This function only gets everything before the first space. How can I use it to get the entire username?

 

[kickstart]

Hi

 

$_GET is not a function, it is just an array.

 

There shouldn't be any spaces in the vars as they should be encoded:-

 

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_urlencode.asp

 

All the best

 

Keith

[cags]

The simplest way is to not use spaces in the url. If you are dymanically creating links use urlencode to convert spaces to a different character.

[sciencebear]

Thank you all for your help! Everything works fine now.