Session variables stopping at whitespace

[DigitalBoB12]

Hey guys, kind of new to php (done a few things with databases and apis), even newer to php freaks.  I have a homework due for school, and both the teacher and TA do not have the solution to my problem.  Long story short the assignment is to set up a web site to search an actor and movie database.  Searching a name gives you results, searching a movie gives you results, this far I have gotten.  The problem I am having is (for extra credit) we are required to allow the user to search an actor, get results of the movies he was in, and have the ability to click on a movie name which will then reload the page and show all the actors in that movie.  Then the user should be able to click on any actors name that was in the movie, and show all the information for that single actor. My code works for movies of one name (ie: Terminator, T2), but not for movies of two names (ie: Waterworld 2), or names because they are first and last.  When I try to assign a name, lets say Ben Stiller, to a session variable it only holds "Ben".  Has anybody had this issue with session variables cutting off at whitespace? 

 

To better illustrate my problem here is the web URL:

http://pdc-amd01.poly.edu/~rmulle01/hw3.php

 

Try searching Arnold Schwarzenegger.  This way you can see how "Terminator" and "T2" appear as links that can be clicked to search the movie name.  However when Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a link and is clicked, the session variable only recieves Arnold and nothing is returned.  The session variables value can be seen in the URL in your browser

 

Hope this wasn't too long, thanks.

[DigitalBoB12]

Was able to figure out using str_ireplace and replacing all spaces with periods and vice versa.