passing strings in url...

Anon

I am using php to extract names from db and then format into links on page. The link then calls a php page with a variable value assigned,
eg: marketinfo.php?Marketname=$Market
This works no problem when $Market="Newmarket", but when $Market="Market Harborough" the variable is passed to the url as marketinfo.php?Marketname=Market (Not Market Harborough)as expected (I have printed the $Market b4 the a href is created and the value is correct at that point)
It seems that the spaces present a problem. I have tried enclosing with various characters but no joy. Can anyone help???

Anon

take a look at
rawurlencode(string)
see if that helps

Anon

Try this:

$market_enc = urlencode ($market);

Slaven

Anon

Thanks, that did the job!
Now another question? In my Contact Us page, the $CompanyName value is read
from the Contact db. eg "My New Company".
In the form that sends the string to a sendmail confirm page, the value is
passed as:
< input type="hidden" name="coname" <? echo "value=$CompanyName>" ; ?>
When the email arrives, it has only the first part of the string, ie:
$coname= My
Can you explain why this happens and how to get around this? The field type
is set as Char(30) in MySQL db.
As you can tell, I am new to PHP. Thanks ..... Mikm

Anon

duh!!!! I know the answer.... enclose in single quotes!!!!! Sorry , but dim here🙂))
Thanks for all help.