HTML in url

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

 

My categories on my site look like:

 

86-Health-%3E-Fitness.html it should be: 86-Health->-Fitness.html the funny thing is when i print it to screen it shows as > but when it's in the url it shows as: %3E

 

I feed this into my function:

 

			<?php
			// LOOP OUT THE CATEGORIES
			$qC = "SELECT * FROM `fcs_categories` ORDER BY `category_name` ASC";
			$rC = mysql_query($qC) or die (mysql_error());

			// LOOP
			while ($aC = mysql_fetch_array($rC))
			{
			  // VARS
			  $catID = $aC['id'];
			  $catNM = $aC['category_name'];
			  
			  // Call the function
			  $links = generate_seo_friendly_category_links($catNM, $catID);
			  
			  // Print the links
	      print "<li class=\"\">$links</li>\n";	
                 
         }
          
        ?>

 

Then the function that converts to seo friendly urls

 

function generate_seo_friendly_category_links($catNM, $catID)
{
  
  // Clean up the product names
  $replacedNM = str_replace(" ", "-", $catNM);

  // Trim the white space
  $nameTrimmed = trim($replacedNM);
  
  // The string together
  $brandNewSEOFriendlyURLCat = "<a href='$catID-$nameTrimmed.html'>$catNM</a>";

  return $brandNewSEOFriendlyURLCat;

}

 

is there a way the url can show the symbol > rather than the unsightly %3E

 

thanks a lot guys

 

Graham

[Maq]

is there a way the url can show the symbol > rather than the unsightly %3E

 

Why?  The greater than sign is supposed to be encoded.  It's not safe otherwise.  There's no reason you should need to see this in the URL.

[JAY6390]

As Maq has said, you shouldn't use it as > and your site will be read by w3validator etc as being malformed since it needs to be encoded