PHP-AJAX Problems

[kratsg]

I've been sending data via AJAX for a chatroom and I've noticed that the ampersand seems to be weird in that it cuts off everything after it (and itself), so if the message was:

 

"Hello, my name is Bond, James Bond & I have starred in many movies."

 

It would be sent as:

 

"Hello, my name is Bond, James Bond "

 

Any ideas on how to fix this? Anything that's sent to the server gets written to a text-file, so I don't want the html code for the ampersand & because that's what would get written to the text-file...

[Barand]

<?php
$str = "Hello, my name is Bond, James Bond & I have starred in many movies." ;

$str = htmlentities($str);

echo "$str<br/>\n";

$str = html_entity_decode($str);

echo $str;  // write decoded version to db
?>

-->
Hello, my name is Bond, James Bond & I have starred in many movies.<br/>
Hello, my name is Bond, James Bond & I have starred in many movies.