[SOLVED] Help passing the & Symbol

[kevinfwb]

I have a PHP page that retrieves the contents of a variable from a db using GET.  The variables are owners names and often include the & symbol due to more than one owner.  When the value is passed GET only reads up to the & symbol and ignores the rest.

 

Is there a clever way to pass the & symbol using GET?

 

Thanks,

 

Kevin

[Orio]

Look into urldecode().

 

Orio.

[dymon]

Hi,

 

in the URL the symbol & means another variable with a value, so I think you should just use another separator. If I understood right this should solve the problem. In any case if you need the owners apart you can just make a parsing of the string you get using $_GET ( explode () - is a good variant ).

 

Regards,

    Dymon

[kevinfwb]

I appreciate the replies.  I can not change the separator because that is how it is stored in the database.  The owners are treated as one unit.

 

IE.  "Jim & Jane Smith"

 

-Kevin

[dymon]

In this case I don't think it will be possible to use $_GET, try to use $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"], and extract from this string what you need. Hope it helps.

 

Dymon

[shoz]

Orio pointed out urldecode and from that you should have been able to find your solution.

 

You should specifcally be using urlencode when putting the field's value in the url string.

 

eg:

<?php
$str = "Jim & Jane Smith";
$url = 'http://www.com/page.php?str='.urlencode($str);
print $url;
?>

 

The correct value of "Jim & Jane Smith" will be in the resulting $_GET array on page.php

[kevinfwb]

Works like a charm.. I was looking too much into it.

 

Thanks for your help!

 

-Kevin