& inside variable

[Guest]

I have a variable that will contain a address that has a & in it when i echo it it comes out as [code]&[/code] hw do i make it print as &?

[obsidian]

How are you handling the variable? If it only contains '&' and it's coming out as '&', you have to be using some sort of html encoding function on it (htmlentities() or such).

[Guest]

this is how im using it.
[code]$address = "$website/view.php?id=$hid&image=1"; [/code]
when it trys to get the image is uses & where the & sign is

im just using echo and its doing this why is that?

[Asheeown]

[code]
$address = "".$website."/view.php?id=".$hid."&image=1"; [/code]

[Guest]

I try that and it still is coming the exact same

[kenrbnsn]

Please post the rest of your script.

Ken

[Guest]

[code]$simage = "" . $website . "/inc/view.php?type=house&id=$hid&image=1&hei=100&wid=100";[/code]


[code]echo "<td rowspan='5' align='left' width='100'><a href='Details.php?hid=$hid' border='0'><img src='$simage' border='0'></a></td>\n";[/code]

[kenrbnsn]

Ia that your whole script?

When are you noticing that the "&" changes to "&amp;"?

Ken

[Guest]

That is the only time $simage I notice a change when I view the webpage.

[kenrbnsn]

The "&" character and "&amp;" should both be translated to the "&" by the browser.

What do you see if you do a "show source" with the browser?

Do you have a publicly accessible web site that shows the problem.

Ken

[Guest]

Yes i see it in the source. No i dont have a website to access it right now.

[Jessica]

[quote author=jeff8j link=topic=121948.msg502625#msg502625 date=1168554127]
[code]$simage = "" . $website . "/inc/view.php?type=house&id=$hid&image=1&hei=100&wid=100";[/code]
[/quote]

That first "" . is superfluous.

This is a pretty wacky problem. That is your exact code? You're not running any functions on the string, or getting it from a db, etc?

[Jessica]

[quote author=jeff8j link=topic=121948.msg502672#msg502672 date=1168556424]
Yes i see it in the source. No i dont have a website to access it right now.
[/quote]

He asked what do you see in the source :-P

I know there are some restrictions on what html can be used inside of a table cell. What happens if you print it outside of a cell?

[Guest]

I see this in the code
[code]<img src="inc/view.php?type=house&amp;id=7&amp;image=1">[/code]

[kenrbnsn]

I tested this very short script to see if I could duplicate the problem:
[code]<?php
echo '<a href="http://www.example.com/index.php?x=1&y=2&z=3&amp;a=ten">
<img src="http://www.example.com/img.php?x=1&y=2"</a>';
?>[/code]

I couldn't.

Could you see you this script causes the problem on your server?

Ken

[Jessica]

You see that even if you put it outside the cell?

Are you using some sort of CMS or is this pure code?

[Guest]

pure php what do you mean outside the cell.

[Jessica]

instead of in a table, just print it somewhere else. No <td> stuff. Outside of your <table>

[Draicone]

It should actually work fine. In fact, for URLs and SRCs, you're meant to use an &amp; to encode the & (because the & denotes a HTMl character entity, which is not present, so you have to use the entity for the & itself). What PHP version are you using?