Need Help with Spaces

Anon

Ok I have a php page that allows a person to created a new record in a database. This particular record is just one field. The problem is I have another page that displays all the records as links to another page with a parameter of the record name.

example: Lets say a record was created called "Computer Hardware".

Another page I have would build a link like:

http://bla.bla.com/bla?record=Computer Hardware

Well you can see the problem. SPACES! How can I convert all spaces to _ so that when a new record is added and the name entered has a space such as Computer Hardware it would be actually put into the database as Computer_Hardware.

Thanks in advance.

Anon

Spaces should not be converted to underscores. Use the urlencode() and urldecode() functions, which support Web standards.

Anon

Great! ok be patient with me here. This is the line I tried.

echo "<td width='33%'><a href='showrecord.phtml?action=Categories&display=',urlencode('$row[0]'),'>$row[0]</a></td>";

$row[0] holds the results of a sql query and I have verified that it in fact has what should be there but the link turns out like this:

http://proxy.vvm.com/~engler/showrecord.phtml?action=Categories&display=

Im sure its something easy.

Thanks in advance.

Anon

Try this; you can't embed a function call in a string literal.

$whatever = urlencode($row[0]);
echo "<td width='33%'><a href='showrecord.phtml?action=Categories&display=$whatever'>$row[0]</a></td>";