Transferring data to another page

[cliftonbazaar]

I have the following code

while($player = mysql_fetch_array($players)) { #Lets loop through all the players
echo "<BR><input type=submit onclick=this.form.action='points.php?points=".$_GET['points']."&player=".$player['playerID']."&playerName=".$player['name']."' value='".$player['name']."'>";
}

but the problem is that $player['name'] is always two words and it doesn't work.  So I have removed '&playerName=".$player['name']."' but now don't know how to transfer that info.

 

Is there a way of having the player name in the header or another way of sending this data to the next page?  Another way of doing it is to check for the players name via there playerID number but this involves another call to the database which I am trying to avoid.

[lastkarrde]

Use url_encode and url_decode to pass information (such as strings with spaces and symbols) in the query string.

 

So you would have:

 

'&playerName=" . url_encode($player['name']) . "'

 

and then on your points.php page, access the player name with

 

$name = url_decode($_GET['playerName']);

[cliftonbazaar]

urlencode did the trick, thanks for that